Page 15 — John J. Dunphy
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Museum of Ancient Technology
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Museum of Ancient Technology
tour guide demonstrates
an internal combustion engine
time tunnel
my wristwatch becomes
a sundial
camping trip
to examine the springwater
for impurities
I set my electronic eye
to ‘microscope’
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The Tempest
alien actor plays Caliban
without makeup
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shopping for
new electronic hands
my attention caught
by the model giving me
both thumbs-up
Day of the Dead
I converse with
my late father’s hologram
now programmed
to be cognizant
colonists’ spacecraft
on its observation deck
a couple and their child
weep while watching Earth
recede into nothingness