Pancho' s Email
Marie Vibbert
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Current Issue:
Transcription of the "Ask The Editors" Panel at Lunacon 2007
Issue 22: Pinny
With John Joseph Adams, Douglas Cohen, Wendy S. Delmater, Marvin Kaye, and Hildy Silverman.
Fiction
by M. Keaton
by Lindsey Duncan
Weepers And Ragers
by Aliette de Bodard
Diminished Capacity
by Andrew Zimmerman Jones
And Saturn Below
by Wade Ogletree
Flash
The Road To Heather Cove
By Richard A. Lovett
The Devil You Know
By Heidi Wessman Kneale
Dreams of Sinaloa
by Alveraz Ricardez
The Japanese Businessman
by Kyle Hemmings
An Alien Ate My SF Poem
by Elizabeth Barrette
Partial–birth Revolution
by Kaori Praschak
Vault
by John Fyffe
Pancho'
s Email
by Marie Vibbert
Twelve Dancing Daughters
by Pam McNew
Alone No More
by William Trowbridge
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Her inbox swells with him, with capitalization,
and accidentally prescient punctuation,
addictive like his fingers
soaked in nicotine and
passionate boldface, wedged between sliced spam
indifference begins,
aren't intelligences artificial enough?
or filing the memory when every bit
shivered for Pancho, for real!
Electronic verification now
doting on your unreality habit,
and the filter, a dream catcher, knows how
but decides to let him through.
Marie Vibbert is a computing professional who always felt protocol headers had their own sort of poetry. She works for the Cleveland FES Center, maintaining computers for people who restore function to paralyzed patients.