X-Message-Number: 30016
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:13:25 -0500
From: Robin Helweg-Larsen <>
Subject: Immortalist poetry

Of passing interest (but great delight to me), I have had 4
immortalist poems published in the current issue of 'Ambit'
(October 2007, #190) in the UK - a very good glossy literary
magazine - including this:

DEATH
 
Death will be harder now, as, year by year,
We solve the clues of immortality:
Emotions sink to animality
As false hopes tighten screws of desperate fear.
Hormone control will make age disappear--
After false starts, most horrible to see--
But those already old must beg to be
Frozen for the genetic engineer.
While war, starvation, pipe Earth's gruesome jigs,
Successful businessmen will fight to gain
Some dead teen's body, to transplant their brain,
The already-old beg to be guinea-pigs.
    Children, look back, hear our despairing cry:
    We bred immortals, but we had to die!


Of course, I encourage Brits to rush out and buy their own copy -
but contact me if you'd like to see the others.

Robin Helweg-Larsen

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