OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD
Just hearing the theme music brought tears to my eyes. This is “Star Wars” for the moody, fucked-up, philosophical 80’s kids!!!
Oh, Deckard!!!
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“An Ode for Fellow Replicants,” by Eric Robert Nolan
(Dedicated to Philip K. Dick)
What if the Internet is an android’s dream,
and we are the electric sheep?
Dick would know at once
our artificial people:
every boy a Roy,
every girl a pleasure model,
trying to pass as real,
inwardly concerned with their design —
“Morphology. Longevity. Incept dates.”
On Facebook,
“More Nolan than Nolan”
is my motto.
If I, in my genuine moments,
could greet my jpeg face
hiding in his electronic words,
he’d go offworld or die.
After all,
“It’s not an easy thing to meet your maker.”
[Author’s note — the film quoted and paraphrased above is Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” (1982), to which this poem is an homage. “Blade Runner” is itself an adaptation of Dick’s 1968 novel, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”]
(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2016
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Happy Birthday, Roy Batty!!
Or, rather … Happy Incept Date?
Enjoy it while you can. “The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long.” And you will burn so very brightly.
“Nothing the God of biomechanics wouldn’t let you into heaven for.”
BLADE RUNNER.
It’s only fun until someone loses their eyes.
“Like tears in rain.”
Some poets I know were chatting on Facebook today about poetry invoking the image of tears.
If you don’t think of Rutger Hauer’s beautiful soliloquy at the end of “Blade Runner,” then you aren’t a science fiction fan.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 