Red Museum

Consumed by a Red Giant (video that follows, the wonder of the sun... prologue to your doom) Beauty... all around. I do promise.

I was born out of a red museum

Into a large cosmic garbage truck

Pirouetting in an office

Around the most standoffish of bosses

Evolved like a dream of dust motes

The sound of an impeccable silence!

Feels real each and every time

I do and do not hear it

　

He's going to eat us you know?

Swallow us whole!

With an appetite and not much around

We are snacks in an ice box

Soon for the oven

Each and every time

Author's Note

Reviews

[sonnie ibadah]

i like your style, nice write

[Davidgeo]

I'm happy you enjoyed it.

[Rachel]

First of all I wanted to say I like your profile picture! Next I wanted to say that I have never read a poem based on the fact that one day the sun will swallow our planet, so I give you points for originality! This poem definitely stands out.

[Davidgeo]

Most of the time I write about cats pretending to be humans. I'm glad you liked my sun poem. Donkkeyshine.

[Papaya]

Those first two lines make me think of childbirth. Which, if you've ever experienced or witnessed is very very very messy. I mean vaginal childbirth. I guess a c-section might be messy too. The rest of the poem sounds like a weird dream to me.

[Davidgeo]

In around 5ish billion years our sun will exhaust it's supply of hydrogen and start fusing heavier and heavier elements becoming hotter and larger eventually engulfing Mercury, Venus, Earth but probably not Mars as it expands into a red giant. Our planet will not exist after that. Towards the very, very end... our sun will become pure violence, until an extraordinary event called a "helium flash" occurs. In a matter of seconds about 40% of the suns remaining mass will be fused into carbon and everything not solid will be blown away into the cosmos leaving a relatively tiny body behind called a white dwarf, which is basically a giant diamond ( extremely dense carbon). And a white dwarf it will remain for trillions and trillions of years. A giant diamond in the sky that no one will survive to see.

[Papaya]

That's pretty hot. Wow. Imagine looking up at a diamond in the sky?
The Stars sort of feel that way a little.

[Davidgeo]

Diamonds in the sky... it is kinda weird. I think I'm going to listen to "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" right now.

[Papaya]

I was thinking that too, the song, when you wrote that.

[drcornelius]

You combine humor, despair, distance and immediacy like few writers I have read. Love the work!

[Davidgeo]

Thanks Cornelius. I'm always happy to be reviewed by former therapist/banjo player. Well, not always I suppose... ( I just drew a picture of a cucumber that looks a lot like an inky blot dick)

[freemantle]

Morning numbnuts.

See you're still churning out crap and still mostly getting ignored.
You're either thick skinned or simply thick. x

[Davidgeo]

Are you sure I'm getting ignored? It seems like at least one person is paying extremely close attention.... borderline stalking/harassment levels of attention. Are you really this self UNaware? Damn dude, just completely oblivious. I don't mind getting called names or if I get snarky or s****y reviews; you know this s**t doesn't bother me. Yet here you are, back for more.... you must be so very frustrated and completely devoid of answers to your "problems". Haahhahha, keep spinning those wheels psycho. We all do love to laugh (at you)

[Cobblestone Traveler]

I'm fascinated by the way you write. Enjoyed it!

[Davidgeo]

That's mighty nice of you to say. I learned it all while attending Batman Fantasy Camp during the summer of 2012. That was the summer we learned how to not really keep a secret identity and that Poison Ivy and Dr Freeze had extremely incompatible goals in 1997's "Batman & Robin". How are the plants going to take over the planet if Mr Freeze wants to bring on a new ice age? It's madness. Just awful screen writing... awful.

[TL Boehm]

He's going to eat us you know. There are some stellar lines in this one for as short as it is. That's one of them. A dream of dust motes. that's good too. And the whole "i was born" bit. It made sense to me.

[Davidgeo]

http://whitedwarf.org/education/sunwd/

[Davidgeo]

It's really just about the evolution of our favorite G-type star.

That lovely climax just 8 minutes and 19 seconds away.

I'll science anything I want to TL

[Davidgeo]

And thanks for dropping off... you tend to review well.

[Davidgeo]

Kinda not so much this time though... no offense. That review was complete bullshit... 90% of it was... eh, never mind. You're a dick and you know it.

[TL Boehm]

You're the second person to call me a dick here. Which I find amusing since I'm a girl. No worries. Sometimes I'm like an old dog and any attention is attention. As for this clinker review I gave you. I looked at the poem in a "human" way instead of a being swallowed by the sun way. And I had a doe in the spotlight moment. I saw depth and terror - but lost all ability to respond and just let the poem run me over. So, yeah, hit the windshield wipers on this review and scrape off the offal. I wonder if dementia is communicable...

[Davidgeo]

Ha... wasn't I just talking about why I don't get a lot of reviews? Don't worry, you're not really a dick.