Aliens At Last
A chunk of impure ice
orbits a devastated world;
patterns, fragments of a circuit,
lattice the frozen thing—
part of an ice computer?
How exciting!
Keep it cold; this could be a key
to understanding the arts & literature
of another evolved sentience
or a fragment of monsterware
that existed only to destroy.
The AI finally renders its verdict:
tax records 120 kiloyears old,
all that's left
of some species that annihilated itself
before it amounted to anything.
Nice moon, though.
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