If I were you, I'd build a ship and head out
to a place where no one will follow.
Thirteen billion kilometers now,
note: I didn't say it'd be easy or cheap,
but once you've made it aboard,
she'll carry out out to one forty.
Bring good food, things to do, someone
to love. And open your mind.
Deep in the weeds around Sedna
old Sol just one penlight down the way.
He tugs on a slack line fishing for love
and you wonder: why do we let it happen?
A baby is born and lies in her cradle
but doesn't stay there a minute longer
when childish things grow dull, so why don't we
chafe too as we have the capacity to leave?
That runaway unshielded fusion pile at the bottom
of a very deep and unattended wellhead
spewing out whatever she wants in all directions,
cancer and teratoma, hurricane and flare,
glowering back one eightieth as wide as the moon.
Why wouldn't everyone get themselves this far off
where Sol can't just burn out their eyes,
reminding them of slimy oceans of their birth?
Sure, he's grabbed up all the metals
like the dragon he is, 'Take what you need
or loot the frozen wanderers out there,
crashing in the dark. Out there you can
take your time, thousands of years to go
around the block far from nosy neighbors.
Maybe raise up your robot army, I'm not here
to tell you how to do you, trust me.
There's ice for your drink in the hollows
and long peaceful nights to father a species
you can teach to worship you forever.
You can crank up the music any time you like
and taste the last cherry from the last Earth jar;
sharing nothing with some so-called government.
Wasn't this always what a being like you wanted,
to become a creator of your own heaven?
You'd be too far out of the way for a bastard cop
or superhero vigilante to want to traipse on by,
and even if -- what would one do, clap you in solitary?
The sculpted methane peaks will last a million years..
You can show the galactic arm your trophies
and see if the far-off races are pushovers.
I predict you won't run out of ways to say
"Here I am, here I'll stay, lord of space invincible!"
