{"id":10867,"date":"2022-08-08T05:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10867"},"modified":"2022-08-07T18:08:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T01:08:26","slug":"galactic-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10867","title":{"rendered":"Galactic Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-07-at-9.04.58-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1018\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-07-at-9.04.58-PM-1018x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10869\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-07-at-9.04.58-PM-1018x1024.png 1018w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-07-at-9.04.58-PM-298x300.png 298w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-07-at-9.04.58-PM-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-07-at-9.04.58-PM-768x772.png 768w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-07-at-9.04.58-PM.png 1108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1018px) 100vw, 1018px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>generated by crAIyon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tony Daly<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><font face=\"Arial\">\nOn an interstellar transport \nat a distant way-station, \na female android with immaculately \npolished surfacing and pre-programmed smile \nhelps a tentacled man slither on board.\n\nHe wears an elegant moth eaten vest \nover a compression-suit with frayed seems, \nan aqua-tube over dehydrated gills, \nwith an overly lathered proboscis \npickled in a perpetual frown.\nHe flinches from her touch.\n \nIn private quarters \ncalculated to his planet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s specifications \nis a water chamber \nwith manicured seaweed gardens, \nand an extensive shellfish menu \nwith impeccable service \nby a cyborg mermaid.\n\nBut none of it is good enough for him: \nthe water\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ph balance is off, \nthere are pebbles in the garden, \nhis crustaceans aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fresh, \nhis mollusks are from a different ecosystem.\nHe flinches at the site of her. \n \nIn the astral dome \nwhere passengers gather \nto gaze at the stars \nwhile engaging in conversation, \nhe drinks too many celestial rum-runners, \nextols the inferiority of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153air breathers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \nand \u00e2\u20ac\u0153circuited freaks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with whom \nhe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s forced to associate. \n\nWhen his aqua-tube malfunctions \nnobody offers assistance.\nThe automated investigation system \nfinds no evidence of tampering \nor malignant play.\n \nIn docking bay H-311,\na janitor mech lays his body in a disposal pod, \nseals the hatch, \nsets the program to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153incinerate\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \nand launches the ash into the transport\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wake. \nHis spirit set to wonder the cosmos, alone, \nabsent the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153air breathers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and things he detests.  \n\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Daly On an interstellar transport at a distant way-station, a female android with immaculately polished surfacing and pre-programmed smile helps a tentacled man slither on board. 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