06 March 2026

False Futures

Leaf 322 – Reflections

 

Nakagin Capsule Tower


Most visions of the future have always been very firmly grounded in the present. I find it endlessly fascinating to read classic science fiction authors, such as Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov, for exactly this reason. There is something wistfully forlorn in thinking about these utopian futures which never came to be …

 

 

Saving a false future

– all those CDs,

burnt for nothing.

 

 



This poem was originally written and posted on Bluesky in response to a #haikufeels writing prompt: burn.

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