Space Talk

Saw the first episode of the cultish Blake's 7 last night. It is a good illustration of how we would seem to aliens, or to ourselves, if we look from distance.
Technology was not so advanced, that's obvious, but the cultural stuff: the costumes, the mores, the talk, the script! Brits in space indeed. Brought a smile to my ageing-middle-age face.

I also once read this title called the History of the Future. The writer recounts the last 5 centuries that spread onwards from the age of spiralling global capitalism. Not to spoil the surprise (it can easily be found on Amazon, though not in Kindle format), suffice it to say the claim is posterity will condemn us.

When I still thought I can write poetry in English, this is what I came up with (Don't laugh, I was 21.):

what goes on - what takes place
be condensed - be say cleansed
might as well say a grace


lucky - so coeval
who else could stand our share
of the void - the dismal