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Slow metronome : I am grateful that you are following along.

Thank you for that reply, and: Thank you for that reply, and for reminding me of what I had stupidly forgotten:  Lem's science fiction, which I have not read, although I have read a bit about it.  I also mentioned, in a comment on one of the other poems in this series, James Tiptree Jr., whose future cosmology is a little less obvious than Cordwainer Smith's; and, perhaps, a little more subtle.  (I love and admire Smith's creation; but I have found Tiptree's work equally entertaining.)  Tiptree drops hints, that are often left unexplained; whereas Smith is far more explanatory.  Despite my tremendous respect for Smith, I will say here that the ambience you have constructed in the poems is much more like ambient music, and like Tiptree's cosmology:  in the background, as needed, but not intrusive upon the narrative.  I think this kind of artistic decision, which you have obviously made in the poems of this series, bespeaks a very poetic view of the material; and is another reason why I applaud this sequence and urge you to extend it as far as your inspiration and inclination might take it.  I think this series is a very unusual part of postpoems, in the best possible meaning of "unusual."  I think you are setting an example, and blazing a parth, of which few if any poets here have thought.  And that adds so much iridescence to your poetry.

Happy Birthday Zach!: Live, love, Be Kind! ~S~ 

I think that, for any reader: I think that, for any reader of this series, the questions are piling up rapidly.  Cosmonauts?---that implies a Soviet presence in the conquest of space; or it is just a word that passed into the language of that time, a more successful passing than, say, the American term "astronaut"?  No, I am not asking you to tip your hand with answers or explanations; I am simply demonstrating the kinds of questions that successful science fiction, be it poetry or prose, raises in the ordinary reader.  Are you familiar with the science fiction of Cordwainer Smith?  I highly recommend him for your reading list.  He wrote prose science fiction, and all but a handful of his stories take place in, describe, partly explain, and extend a vast future vision of an interstellar civilization that began with humans on earth and then exploded out into the cosmos.  The artistic control he exerted upon his material is very evident, and is also very skilled and very subtle.  He is "required reading" (so to speak) to anyone who is creating a coherent and internally consistet science fiction vision.  The late Iain Banks' sciece fiction series is a more recent example of the same kind of writing.  Your very original series reminds me of theirs (although i have read little of Banks').  I aoplaud the work you are doing within this science fiction tradition.

Meditation---no beer: Furthermore relatable comments when worthy... You are brought to me with parallel pursuits, and loathing losses of what we knowingly once thought might prevail as perfection.

"word turns": Well said - they ain't bailing me out neither, correct English and all. I like this write - ginsberg rocks! ~S~