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challenging the sci-fi challenge

Supreme stupidity and vanity,
outrageous folly and pathetic miserable lunacy,
you future monster, how can you get such an idea
to even dare to challenge poetry,
more holy than the gods,
the very incarnation of longevity,
the sacred word more sacred than the Bible
that invented it; this is ridiculous.
You just can't challenge poetry in any way,
not even hypothetically;
for a poet, like for instance Dante
or the poet behind Shakespeare
must remain alive for ever,
while you can never harm in any way
a single word that ever was poetically written.

And even if you would succeed in such an enterprise
of a preposterous deletion of all files,
you can not kill the dreams,
that will continue spreading poetry forever.

Poetry by Christian Lanciai