• Re: The Dark Halls.

    From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, June 03, 2026 06:06:26
    Apocalyptic haiku. How interesting.

    It's an ice apocalypse. It's not what the survivalists predicted -- "The roving gangs never came." The distant city is dead, and the poet may not
    even know why, but suddenly it's us against the night again.

    Verily, in article <9ivu1l9go8es9eh4n4ctssu3j3iap6kfqj@4ax.com>, did Man@the.keyboard deliver unto us this message:

    Soon
    ####

    No more distant lights.
    The roving gangs never came.
    Still the cold and dark.

    ? J.

    The Dark Halls.
    ###############

    The blue ice creaking.
    A silence on the roadways.
    History ended.

    ? J.



    Time Lapsed.
    ############

    Summers do not now come.
    All the stories have ended.
    The ice bears watching.

    ? J.




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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, June 03, 2026 14:45:51
    Verily, in article <70q02ld69sjobv9po31s72m3vmbm6tpsl9@4ax.com>, did Man@the.keyboard deliver unto us this message:
    It's not what the survivalists predicted

    Way back in the Ancient Times, around the 1960's, *everyone* was
    predicting a global Ice Age and it was coming up about next Thursday.
    Round about ten minutes after The Gulf Stream dies.

    Well, everyone save a few Climate Science crank scientists and some Meteorologists. Those guys were round the twist, out of their tree and suggesting that something called "gullible worming" might happen and
    the planet might become like Venus, only hotter. No one bought into
    that trash, of course. Only nutjobs would think that an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide could affect *anything*. I mean, come on,
    it didn't do much during the Carboniferous, did it? :)


    Also a good point! And then there was nuclear winter to fear, at one
    point.

    I was actually referring to nobody leaving the cities, though. Part of
    the classic survivalist scenario is people pouring out of cities to raid
    farms for food. Your scenario seems more like one where the city's just
    dead, probably in a quick death.

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