FAREWELL NEW YORK: A Post-Human Premonition IMAGE: A setting sun within a nested geometric puzzle with hereditary properties reflected on some turbid waters against a backdrop of stars. Sam: Why such pessimism? Isn't New York a thrivin', vibrant city? Kris: For those with money, yes. Yet for many it's a third world slum. Tim: Soon enuf parts of it will be submerged . . . then eventually the skies will be dusty gold instead ah blue. Sam: (skeptically) How d'ya know that? Tim: (laughing to himself) You wouldn't believe me if I told you . . . ================================================================================= from _AmeriSong: Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Amerika_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: An image of sunken metropolis and discussion of a possible future scenario KEYWORDS: post-humans, future extinction, after New York, rising seas, golden skies Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 2005 in Tokyo, Japan / Finished: 2020 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST http://www.tnewfields.info/AmeriSong/space.htm TOC http://www.tnewfields.info/AmeriSong/index.html NEXT > http://www.tnewfields.info/AmeriSong/lincoln.htm