{"id":4662,"date":"2015-10-02T11:46:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T11:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=4662"},"modified":"2015-10-24T19:00:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T19:00:29","slug":"the-god-of-biomechanics-wont-let-you-in-heaven-roy-a-poem-by-amparo-arrospide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/the-god-of-biomechanics-wont-let-you-in-heaven-roy-a-poem-by-amparo-arrospide\/","title":{"rendered":"The God of Biomechanics Won\u2019t Let You In Heaven, Roy. A Poem by Amparo Arrospide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Roy-Aubrey-Beardsly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4664\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Roy-Aubrey-Beardsly-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"Roy, Aubrey Beardsly\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Roy-Aubrey-Beardsly-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Roy-Aubrey-Beardsly-100x132.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Roy-Aubrey-Beardsly-150x197.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Roy-Aubrey-Beardsly-200x263.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Roy-Aubrey-Beardsly-300x395.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Roy-Aubrey-Beardsly-450x592.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Roy-Aubrey-Beardsly.jpg 587w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><strong><br \/>\nThe God Of Biomechanics Won\u2019t Let You In Heaven, Roy<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><em><strong>I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>darkness at Tan Hauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>like tears in rain. Time to die.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n<strong>\/\/and so Roy breathed out his ghost<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Nothing particularly interesting about ourselves.<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Nothing particularly interesting about this here and now.<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Nothing particularly interesting around the solar system \/\/globular clusters<\/strong>\r\n<strong>of meaning not centered here, no place significantly different<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Then all of a sudden<\/strong>\r\n<strong>When data corruption is the only generator of modern Physics<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Not being significantly different to be discovered<\/strong>\r\n<strong>                        By the scientific community<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Not only where you are is not any more special than any other<\/strong>\r\n<strong>But indeed whom you are is not any more special than whom you are not.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>From the mediocrity principle \/\/ it follows<\/strong>\r\n<strong>That no intelligent beings are particularly more beings than any other<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Or more intelligent \/\/ life, it follows, <\/strong>\r\n<strong>Centers around conditional line of clusters<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Through the evolution of any given universe<\/strong>\r\n<strong>                        A process that can only happen at certain times!<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>See? The God Of Biomechanics Won\u2019t Let You In Heaven, Roy<\/strong>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<\/pre>\n<pre>* Italics. Tears in Rain Monologue. Blade Runner(1982)\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Amparo-Peak-District-Railway-August-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4673\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Amparo-Peak-District-Railway-August-2015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Amparo-Peak-District-Railway-August-2015-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Amparo-Peak-District-Railway-August-2015-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Amparo-Peak-District-Railway-August-2015-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Amparo-Peak-District-Railway-August-2015-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Amparo-Peak-District-Railway-August-2015-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Amparo-Peak-District-Railway-August-2015-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Amparo-Peak-District-Railway-August-2015-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Amparo-Peak-District-Railway-August-2015-900x675.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Amparo Arrospide (Argentina) is a Spanish writer and translator. She has published four poetry collections <em>Mosaicos bajo la hiedra, Alucinaci\u00f3n en dos actos y algunos poemas, Pa\u00f1uelos de usar y tirar and Presencia en el Misterio<\/em> as well as poems, short stories and articles on literary and film criticism in anthologies and both national and foreign magazines, such as <em>Cuadernos del Matem\u00e1tico, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, Linden Lane Magazine, Esp\u00e9culo, Piedra del Molino, Nayagua.<\/em> She has received awards. Together with Robin Ouzman Hislop, she worked as co-editor of Poetry Life and Times, when it was a monthly webzine 2008-10, and coordinated in the Spanish sonnets section for the international anthology<em> The Phoenix Rising from the Ashes<\/em> (ed. Richard Vallance, 2014).<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/\">robin@artvilla<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PoetryLifeTimes\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PoetryLifeTimes<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-socializer wpsr-share-icons\" data-lg-action=\"show\" data-sm-action=\"show\" data-sm-width=\"768\"><h3>Share and Enjoy !<\/h3><div class=\"wpsr-si-inner\"><div class=\"wpsr-counter wpsrc-sz-40px\" style=\"color:#000\"><span class=\"scount\" data-wpsrs=\"\" data-wpsrs-svcs=\"pinterest,print,pdf,twitter\"><i class=\"fa fa-share-alt\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><small class=\"stext\">Shares<\/small><\/div><div class=\"socializer sr-popup sr-count-1 sr-40px sr-pad\"><span class=\"sr-pinterest\"><a data-pin-custom=\"true\" data-id=\"pinterest\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=&amp;media=&amp;description=\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Submit this to Pinterest\"><i class=\"fab fa-pinterest\"><\/i><span class=\"ctext\" data-wpsrs=\"\" data-wpsrs-svcs=\"pinterest\"><\/span><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-print\"><a data-id=\"print\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.printfriendly.com\/print?url=\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Print this article \"><i class=\"fa fa-print\"><\/i><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-pdf\"><a data-id=\"pdf\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.printfriendly.com\/print?url=\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Convert to PDF\"><i class=\"fa fa-file-pdf\"><\/i><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-twitter\"><a data-id=\"twitter\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=%20-%20%20\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tweet this !\"><i class=\"fab fa-twitter\"><\/i><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-share-menu\"><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More share links\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\" data-metadata=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;excerpt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;image&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;short-url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;rss-url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.artvilla.com\\\/plt\\\/feed\\\/&quot;,&quot;comments-section&quot;:&quot;comments&quot;,&quot;raw-url&quot;:null,&quot;twitter-username&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;fb-app-id&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;fb-app-secret&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\"><i class=\"fa fa-plus\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-socializer wpsr-share-icons\" data-lg-action=\"show\" data-sm-action=\"show\" data-sm-width=\"768\"><div class=\"wpsr-si-inner\"><div class=\"socializer sr-popup sr-32px sr-pad\"><span class=\"sr-facebook\"><a data-id=\"facebook\" style=\"background-color:#1e73be;color:#8224e3;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share this on Facebook\"><i class=\"fab fa-facebook-f\"><\/i><\/a><\/span>\n<span class=\"sr-share-menu\"><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More share links\" style=\"background-color:#1e73be;color:#8224e3;\" data-metadata=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;excerpt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;image&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;short-url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;rss-url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.artvilla.com\\\/plt\\\/feed\\\/&quot;,&quot;comments-section&quot;:&quot;comments&quot;,&quot;raw-url&quot;:null,&quot;twitter-username&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;fb-app-id&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;fb-app-secret&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\"><i class=\"fa fa-plus\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The God Of Biomechanics Won\u2019t Let You In Heaven, Roy I&#8217;ve seen things you people wouldn&#8217;t believe. 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