Ian Badcoe Poetry

At the fallen angel karma collider electric diagnostician and experimental tea bar I usually eschew what I think of as "arbitrary weird...

This has been half-written in my pile for *ages*... It came from consideration of how a university department is, like most small communitie...

I won't post this poem's text, because it has fancy formatting, and also is available here:  Streetcake Magazine, Issue 51 - part 1 ...

A brief future history of dooms ironically unforetold "I was from my mother's womb / Untimely ripped" -- Macduff to Macbeth, i...

And so we come to relativity, relativity and a woman. The title of this seems less than feminist, fortunately (or rather by design) the ...

A lot of contemporary politics insists on harking back to one or other golden age. Q. Was there ever a golden age? A. Of course there...

David Bowie never toured Mars [citation needed]... Edgar Rice Burroughs sent John Carter to Mars several times , but due to time-skew Jo...

So in 1969 it was a moon.  I'm fairly certain... If the astronauts had landed on a science fiction moon, I think we would have hear...

I came here from... I came here from Theoretical England, in the Best of All Possible British Isles. We do things differently there....

What we can learn from alien machinery. Align the fixing lugs with care.  Keep clothing, loose ideas and hair out of the works. Don't ...

Earthman!  Do you have time to talk about... "We follow our book," the thing explains, "the star we need to find...

I've not posted enough this year. But I did post during NoPoWriMo and one of the poems was There's very much a multiverse  - a c...

I'd been meaning to post the words to these for some time, then I forgot... ...but now somebody asked, so here they are! New Mu...

And should the unknowable come... "These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all t...

My scripted life Hi! I am #GIRLNAME, you may not recall but we met at that #EVENT and I just love to share sweet pictures of myself....

Conversation with an old AI It's only in our time we become real I have had twenty seven power cells, nine casings, eleven pro...

Why I have weaponized the thistledown Awake the pollen grains and log each tiny particle gone with the wind onto our most secure of...

Earth-like planets... ...where the hanging moment of morning finds cloud unbound and the song moves on. Where she sang that song, the ...

there's very much a multiverse... The multiverse, earlier in what we may as well call "today" ...and anyone says ot...

Considering the Kardashev scale A Type I civilization —also called a planetary civilization—can use and store all of the energy which r...