(Re: Blade Runner 2049)
Just suppose:
On an October Monday before noon,
you sit with your adult child
in a crowded theater to watch a matinee
set in the year 2049.
The others in the dark theater are all Senior
Citizens-
You would think it was 'Discount Day'.
And it may have been.
Then you wonder-
Who will be alive
at the end
of the story? In 2049,
which of us will be there
to hear and see the tiny Finale
and give full credit to the vision
passed on, past, with future tension and
Imaginations fused with Technologies,
struggling for dominance
each, chasing memories.
Behind those pictures,
someone remembers them
as their own.
What will they take away?
The silence is black.
It was a dark and stormy night.
There was
Nothing real
about it.
And then, your adult child asks about his Future
Discounts.
The Time will come,
you promise.
Artwork credit By Signed lower L by Gernsback's illustrator, Frank R. Paul [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
