"An old woman sat in her house.
She was alone. Everyone else in the world was dead.
The doorbell rings."
Hey, that's heavy stuff so I'll lighten it up with my favorite short poem:
Fleas
Adam
had 'em.
There's a site (several actually) which publishes "Sci-Fiku" (science-fiction haiku). Sometime ago I read a faux scifiku on one of them, and I can't find it anymore, but I can repeat it:
Nice planets
All in orbit:
No bumping.
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Then there are Piet Hein's Grooks, now out of print:
Problems worthy of attack
Prove their worth
By hitting back.
You'll conquer the present
Suspiciously fast
If you smell of the future
And stink of the past.
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--Boris