Fools in the Maw

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A fledgling planet—green, graceless, clueless—
tumbled headlong into the gaping maw of a blackhole,
its spin a fumbling, drunken bow,
its rotation an obscene, desperate handshake.
The blackhole, sardonically patient,
folded spacetime like brittle origami,
revealing a lobby of an advanced civilization
twisted by eons, by gravity,
by boredom, by the infinite, insidious charm
of being impossibly, irreversibly superior.
Contact was not polite.
Contact was annihilatory.
The planet buckled, spasmed,
and—inevitably, spectacularly—
crossed the threshold,
its matter quivering in cosmic embarrassment.
The fallout shredded reality:
oceans ripped into quantum foam,
mountains convulsed into relativistic tangles,
and the hapless inhabitants—if you could call them that—
had their destinies redrafted,
their calendars shredded,
their memes obliterated into the polite malice of cosmic irony.
The advanced civilization, ever contemptuously courteous,
offered apologies in waveforms,
like teachers correcting an insolent, clueless child.
They sipped their entangled tea,
while the fledgling planet
hung in spacetime,
grinning, panicking,
a footnote in the ledger of the multiverse
that would haunt eternity.
Gravity shrugged with thin irony.
Time straightened, but only politely.
And somewhere,
a blackhole broadcast to the void:
"New tourist. 10/10 would bend again.

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