Ian Badcoe

@ianbadcoe.itch.io

(they/he) nonbinary, poet, father, husband, gardener, *retired* game-dev from Sumo Digital...

I'm featured in Paul Brookes' Fifty Days of Poetry and Artwork in the Starbeck Orion today: https://the880.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-starbeck-orion-summer-152 These are a tree poem sequence centred around some particular areas of dissatisfaction I have had with the world recently: [1/3]

Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Fifty Days Of Poetry And Artwork. Day Thirty-Six featuring the writing group Sheffield Spammers. Today we explore the work of Dawn Kirby and Ian Badcoe

A Feast Of

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those eyes and mine black two black molars window-paned over a field a prescribed burn chest speaking boneless buzzing mouths fly-wing necks craning for the sun even though the sun’s just another screen

Science fiction authors in the order you want them to be right about AI: Iain Banks Becky Chambers Martha Wells Douglas Adams Charles Stross (Singularity Sky) Peter Watts Charles Stross (Laundry) Harlan Ellison

We are stuck togethir on a tinye beautiful driftinge rocke wyth nobodye outsyde and nobodye cominge to save us. We are the onlye ones heere yn a wild expanse of night and silence. We sholde be lovinge each othir all the tyme. We sholde be greetinge each othir "hey, miracle!" We sholde be daunsinge.