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Sara

Posted on June 14, 2020April 20, 2022 by alexis

The following poem is a (somewhat belated) birthday dedication to my eldest sister.
 

There once was a woman,

Named Sara Harding.

In the year 20-something

her midlife was starting.

Her hair nearly gray

And her mind turned a haze,

She could barely remember

Her tequila-filled days.

But after her birthday

had passed nearly by,

dear Sara realized

new things in the sky!

 

She had much better things now

than beer pong or beersbee,

she had a super computer

in her cyborg brain.

 

See, on the eve of her birthday

the aliens came.

They implanted some tech

inside her brain,

then they dropped her on earth

with a smile of glee

to see the destruction

she’d wreak sea to sea.

But Sara was clever

(since she was rather old)

and in all age’s wisdom,

She was equally bold.

She looked up to the sky,

where she did see a shape:

the dumb aliens there

had forgot to escape!

She looked up above

and stared at the sky.

Her eyes shot death lasers

as she waved them goodbye.

Her powers were super

and rather divine,

and the mere human mortals

Built her a shrine.

But it wasn’t enough

and she went seeking love,

and by her next birthday

she met John (good enough).

A few more birthdays

and then she had twins

(they might also be cyborgs –

just look at their grins)

 

And now Sara roams

a century later,

the world’s only cyborg

and alien hater.

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