WHAT IF...POR EDUARDO OWEN

What if there was no sky

No atmosphere

No moon

No planets?

 

What if the universe

Was a made up story

Written by a couple of unhappy astronomers

From the middle ages

Looking for something to look at with their telescopes

In their moments of leisure

And/or justify their huge scientists salaries?

 

What if planet Earth

Was a satellite of its shadow

And its Equator was covered

By a thick layer of melting snow

And both the South and North Poles

Were two new summer sports?

 

What if time and space did not exist

And all the tape measures

Clocks and calendars

Of the world and its surroundings

Suddenly became obsolete?

 

What if you and I

Were just poor quality photocopies in 3D

Of ourselves?

 

What if...

 

(One more question

Has just come to my mind:

 

What’s going to happen

With our virtual lives

When we are no longer here:

 

Will they be stored

In the memory cards

Of our 10 megapixel digital cameras

Or in the 250 GB hard discs of our PCs

For someone else to edit and use?) ©  EDUARDO OWEN