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The Library of Love
Tim Pratt, b. 1976 — portrait

Scientific Romance

Tim Pratt, b. 1976

I’d still spend at least 10^21 processing cycles a month just sitting on a virtual couch with you, watching virtual TV, eating virtual fajitas

The Gemstone Line
How does it sound? Why does it work?
The poem
If starship travel from our Earth to some far Star and back again At velocities approaching the speed Of light made you younger than me Due to the relativistic effects Of time dilation, I’d show up on your doorstep hoping You’d developed a thing for older men, And I’d ask you to show me everything you Learned to pass the time Out there in the endless void Of night.