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an illustrated poem
by Andrew Toskin, writing as Niccolo Florence

Bing-reading science articles makes me feel romantic.



Original comic script



Panel 1: image "A Galactic Spectacle": It\u2019s actually a picture of the collision
between two separate galaxies, but it looks now like a single mass of lights and
color. A "golden spiral," resembling some snail shells.

\tTitle and Byline
\t\tWe Accrete
\t\tby Niccolo Florence
\t\tcurefornightmares.com

Panel 2: image "a dusty planet-forming disk, similar to the one that vanished
around the star called TYC 8241 2652."

\tcaption: You and I
\t\tcircle each other, merely
\t\tone cluster of dust and rock and debris
\t\tnear a hungry new star.
\t\tWe swing around on gravity\u2019s merry-go-round
\t\tand lean our heads back in the solar wind.

Panel 3: image "Planetary Smash-Up": Two planetoids collide with a terrific
burst of fiery light and hot fragments.

\tcaption: You and I,
\t\tthe closer we get, the closer we get,
\t\tthe tighter we become,
\t\tuntil we become one
\t\tmass of warming carbon and iron and nickel
\t\tin a shroud of hydrogen and helium.

Panel 4: image "Artist\u2019s impression of a gas giant planet forming in the disc
around the young star HD 100546": The young planet glows red-hot in the fog of
the newly-forming star system.

\tcaption: You and I,
\t\tour core melts red-hot.
\t\tGradually the mantle separates
\t\tinto stratified layers by density.
\t\tMolten minerals boil beneath the surface
\t\tuntil our crust splits
\t\tand releases the magma in our pit.

Panel 5: image "Terraformed Mars": We see a planet sort of like Earth, with
swirling white clouds, red and green continents, and lots of blue water.

\tcaption: You and I
\t\tget wet \u2014 steam pours from our pores
\t\tand condenses in the atmosphere we exhaled.
\t\tWe release again and again
\t\tover the millennia,
\t\tbelching our satisfaction as if from a delicious meal.

Panel 6: image "Pequeño Planeta Crossroads": a photo of a city park, bent so it
looks sort of like a little planet, with a circle of grass and cement in the
center, bushes and trees sprouting all around the edges. Tall city buildings jut
up from the western side.

\tcaption: You and I
\t\tturn green \u2014 life appears.
\t\tIt shows up out of nowhere.
\t\tI frown when I notice the algae on our face,
\t\tbut then it evolves,
\t\tand things wriggle and swim in our oceans
\t\tand some crawl onto the beaches.
\t\tThey wheeze from the struggle, vestigial gills dilated,
\t\tsand coating their slimy bellies.
\t\tI try to throw some lava on the nasty things,
\t\tbut this only seems to ignite some Cambrian explosion
\t\tof new species.
\t\tIt is unnerving, and disgusting, and vile,
\t\tand a little cute.

Panel 7: image "Black Marble": We have a view of the Earth at night. The golden
glitter of city lights sparkles on Asia, Africa, and all over Europe.

\tcaption: You and I
\t\tare excited.
\t\tWe never knew we had been lonely
\t\tuntil we had children to keep us company.

END.

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