12 Jan 2023

A friend of mine was playing with my Olivetti 22, and created the below prompt:

Zeitgeist is a word that people use who have never been to Mars. You wouldn't dare go if you knew how many people there hate Venus.

I loved it. I thought I would respond to said friend in verse:

ANARCHY IN PKD'S MEMORY

World-feeling minted by social currency
Planet-wide zeitgeist - unreality generality
Shifting dusty scree on Plains Arcadia
Where bedrock truths emerge from the melee

From atop Tharsis Montes across Hellas wide
In Marineris folds or by Phobos light
A love unrequited hath Martians for those
Departing tumble roses who call Venus home

No bloodshed mars these habitat domes
and only tears flow
between these
once-kindred zones.