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To Serve Man |
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Radrook Senior Member
since 2002-08-09
Posts 648 |
They promised: pristine atmospheres crystalline seas. Diaphanous nights rosette sunsets under twin blue suns No more rumble of canon no more the cracking of guns. They offered: Clear Emerald oceans Blue Crystalline skies limitless horizons Dusks undisturbed Life immortal Time travel portals Never-ending elation.... Everything was assured with benevolent intonation. We disbanded our armies our weapons we destroyed for the promised peace and the blessed joys. Now we crave: Unshackled ankles Uncollared necks Whips that don't score us Lips that don't sneer Force-fielded cities to Protect us once more. Death of their laughter. War! [The poem is based on a Twighlight Zone episode by that name.] [This message has been edited by Radrook (10-02-2002 01:44 PM).] |
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insect Senior Member
since 2000-04-22
Posts 1014 |
“You are now entering the Twighlight Zone” Those stories really left you with a lot to think about? I loved all of them. I hope that aliens don’t want to eat us? But even we/us as intelligent beings crave for the taste of certain things. I like what you have cooked up here! |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Interesting use of imagery! I like this.  |
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Radrook Senior Member
since 2002-08-09
Posts 648 |
Hi! Yes, many of those stories impressed me. Actually, the original, from which the TZ version was derived, appeared as a short story printed and published as part of a sci-fi paperback anthology. It depicted the aliens as small pig-like creatures dressed in tight, black, shorts! LOL The makers of the Twighlight Zone version chose to depict them as rather tall, white-robe-garbed, emaciated, and somewhat taciturn, sleep-deprived (judging by the bags and dark circles under their eyes which of course could have been due to indigestion) beings. Perhaps the lesson of the story is that we should be very careful in whom we place our trust. We could very well wind up on their menu! Thanks for the feedback! [This message has been edited by Radrook (10-03-2002 02:37 AM).] |
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paladin
since 2001-08-05
Posts 930Pensacola,Fl. |
That episode ended with the humans finding out the book titled "How to serve man" was a cook book.We only may be the top of the food chain on this planet.Food for thought.LOL paladin |
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Radrook Senior Member
since 2002-08-09
Posts 648 |
Wow! What a shocker that was! And they had the audacity to give it to the humans for interpretation as well! Guess they figured by the time humans deciphered it second servings would be about to be offered. |
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