micah2351
Council Member
Just another day in the burbs
he wakes up
to find all his neighbors
are first generation holographs
stuck in the same old daily routine loop,
his fifteen year old cat,
merely obsolete animatronics
with a gyroscope for a heart,
programmed like a toy train
his long legged, blue-eyed, blond-haired wife
most likely a clone of the original
who secretly left one night
many years ago
and his mind a mundane
loaner from the Reality Shop,
still in tow after thirty odd years,
repairs on the original taking much longer than expected
It's just another day in
the burbs, dark secrets simmering
behind closed curtains, close cropped
lawns hungry for fresh interments,
the postman a minor god.
G.O. Clark
he wakes up
to find all his neighbors
are first generation holographs
stuck in the same old daily routine loop,
his fifteen year old cat,
merely obsolete animatronics
with a gyroscope for a heart,
programmed like a toy train
his long legged, blue-eyed, blond-haired wife
most likely a clone of the original
who secretly left one night
many years ago
and his mind a mundane
loaner from the Reality Shop,
still in tow after thirty odd years,
repairs on the original taking much longer than expected
It's just another day in
the burbs, dark secrets simmering
behind closed curtains, close cropped
lawns hungry for fresh interments,
the postman a minor god.
G.O. Clark