
“voyager 2” 6.15.18
one million ten million more
what will remain
a golden disc
not even you, great ozymandias
even your magnificence
of words on stone
will be but dust among
dunes of old
your portly friends
the pyramids
will amount
to just mounds of common rock
even the sphinx will sleep and be consumed
the earth will reclaim
all we think we thought we knew
notes… the golden disc is of course the records sent out with the voyager probes, ozymandias … well, that is a shot at my friend shelley whom I love as one poet to another but kind of recalls his great poem vs the object of time that it addresses, he did not have the science of now to contemplate so I will give the old boy a pass. I love the last line here… it sums up how arrogant we are because we are NOW… we know so little, we barely pierced the sky just 100+ years ago with the wright brothers.. think about it.
Music ? SETI: The geometry of night… different than Seti : Pharos… but equally trippy imo.
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