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GM 🪴📺💵.

"In a winter twilight watched by ravens,
      Birds on basalt,
And shadows of ships long-shattered lie..."

--The Age of Anxiety

Double motion.

"Winter Ocean

Many-maned scud-thumper, tub
of male whales, maker of worn wood, shrub-
ruster, sky-mocker, rave!
portly pusher of waves, wind-slave."

--John Updike

Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks. ⎛⎝(ꜩ◟ꜩ)⎠⎞💗.

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Anyone with windows can be me.

"FLYBY"

2.
   4 hours in transit,
Neptune's firstseen face,
I, Swampling, ecstatic dancer,
erstwhile astronomer-in-training,
& vacillating space cadet ever,
i make the trek to gawk
a planet i once tried to story.
Ice crust then, O obsolescence of myth
while the astrologers' never varies
with the constancy
of an airtight con.
           Pyramid schemes,
pyramids.
Dream me another Neptune, screen.
Show me its fashion palette.
My greedy Swamp-eyes
becloy up with acid paint,
rusted scrap...

4.
   Neptune, planet of glamour,
green & improbable Oz-disk
not to reveal tonight
any more than before...

The ice bites deep.
I carry Plutonium....

(1989)

"About three hundred million years after the colonization of Neptune, a rabbit-like species evolves into the Tenth Men."

"The view, as we drove ourselves through the currents of this gassy sea, was monotonous, monochromatic, but weirdly beautiful." --Alexei Panshin

"...(when Robert Silverberg assembled an anthology of stories set on each planet, he had to commission Alexei Panshin to write an original one for Neptune)." ( At the Open Library.)

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"The insurrection, Enrich says, was the 'predictable culmination of a president whom Jones Day had helped elect, an administration the firm’s lawyers had helped run, and an election whose integrity the firm had helped erode'."

"And holy to his dread is that dark
Which will neither promise nor explain."

--The Age of Anxiety

"Readers of any age will find these characters difficult to believe in, let alone identify with, and several will recognize that Gordon ( Falling Towards Forever ) has taken his main plot from a combination of Clarke's 2010 and a story in Simak's City series." "Simak's version of Jupiter is a cold, windswept, and corrosive hell where only advanced technology allows the station to exist at all. A scientist is accompanied by Towser, his tired and flea-bitten old dog. But there is a problem: Men permanently transformed to survive unaided on Jupiter's surface leave the station to gather data and inexplicably fail to return. Finally, the scientist transforms himself and his canine companion into the seal-like beings that can survive the surface. They leave the station in their new form and experience Jupiter as a paradise." --Wikipedia

Enjoy the weekend🛝🤿.

"FOR BASHO (Palindrome-Haiku)

Loop a tag or fog.
Oh, sable, we jewel Basho.
Go, frog at a pool!"

--@Anthony_Etherin

How Pirates Tried to Sabotage the Growth of the Slave Trade.

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Raining diamonds.

"traik tranklements"

rains diamonds · through the turbulent murk
not sparkling · veal veto
toe valve · the Great Dark Spot
& where it went to

2.
14 moons frolic · distracted
   interacting · dun winter
book on the shelf here · onion scheme
   anemic poet · dry Noah

3.
halcon bloody hoodwink
rehearse chiptune Neptune
diamonds are for amsace

airt of devout fountains
where methane finks fathoms

4.
   one fifth of your turn ago
   origin grown indigo
in a field i performed the argonaut
      water of cult cargo

there will come soft rains

Another poem about Neptune.

"...I knew you were not stasis
         bedded in the marl

...What we know
wouldn't
fill
a lemur's fist..."

--Diane Ackerman, "Neptune"

A mission to 'Sea King Star' (海王星).

( "long black car" by steve cruz on fb / via )

"My first novel, A Questionable Shape, is a zombie novel without zombies."

"From the minutely measur'd vacillation of Uranus, augur'd
Where his mighty brother Neptune went wandering unnamed,
And thro' those thousand-million league-darknesses of space
Drew him slowly whene'er he pass'd, and slowly released him!"

--Robert Bridges, from "Wintry Delights"

La Motocicletta Rossa.

"Fenris Shiba"

1.
hardly even storms
paleness · on that blue

so much cold
such pressure
somewhere else

no one will ever go

2.
i remember when Neptune was reached
or was it Uranus

3.
my ice library
forest of stumps
sleep in shells of houses

Photograph.

( abdelhaq djellab in asemic / via )

Ready for a burn up?

"Neptune the Ice Giant (palindrome)

Deep’s fog rebel is Neptune.
Model, bare never.

Go, space citadel,
apses paled at ice caps,

ogre, venerable dome,
nut pensile, berg of speed."

--@SpoonerRhythms

Seven fingers.

"For it[ ] i[s] November – once called Blōtmōnaþ, the month of sacrifice. The year has turned to cold knives. It offers nothing but a stinging, frigid clarity. In frost-cracked fields that leak starven ghosts, all augury cannot help but mention the coming of death." –-CLNolan via @hoandguide

Rat Race.