Image Credit: Dave Paterson (CC BY 2.0, Flickr)

Image Description: A skeleton model from Ray Harryhausen’s Jason and the Argonauts.

By Will Shaw

The quest is the quest
Even as this nebula
Buries us alive.

A sky made of rock
Prevents our prisoners’ dreams
Expanding too far.

Official sadism
Marks a ruling class evolved
Into harsh metal.

The quest is over.
This self-aggrandising box
Won’t stand in our way.

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