Image Credit: James Ashworth

Image Description: The top of a model of the Dalek Emperor

By Will Shaw

Behind the gangsters
Anachronism’s power
Connects the ages.

The mirror’s image
Projected through history
Bursts into monsters.

The human factor
Is in another castle;
I’ve travelled too far.

You promised me gold.
But how many more bodies
Must I bury here?

The swords magnetise:
As our experiment folds
The games can begin.

Through velvet shadows
The bellow of a demon:
Remake your planet!

But why not question
The orders of a Dalek?
Emperors are dust.

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