Amber Tamblyn's [url=http://www.amtam.com/dear-demographic]Dear Demographic[/url] feels like something that would resonate with the autonomists and weirdos in the outer system, no?

Two poems come to mind. First, Greg Egan's meta-fictional "Technolibération", which appears as an introduction to his 1996 novel "Distress." So I declare that no corporation holds a monopoly on numbers no patent can encompass zero and one no nation has sovereignty over adenine and guanine no empire rules the quantum waves Second, Frederick Turner's epic poem "Genesis," about the terraforming of Mars. Let there be beetles and bacteria And molds and saprophytes to spin the wheel Of nitrogen, corals and shells to turn The great ratcheted cycle of the carbons; Each biome--grassland, forest, littoral; Benthic, pelagic; arctic, desert, alp-- Shall keep appointed bounds and yet be free. Fun fact: poems in iambic pentameter roughly approximate the rhythm of the Rodgers & Hammerstein song "My Favorite Things." Try it! I found only one example of Extropian poetry: Greg Burch's "Broken Chalice," a poem about the Galileo probe to Jupiter. You were born in darkness and in darkness you will die. But for now, scarred though you are, you live in bright glory. Decades in careful conception: We would give our creature a child to call his own. As we controlled, so would you. As we listened, so would you. As it is with us, so with our children. But a terrible sign in the sky foretold your birth: Blood and fire smeared across the winter blue; the death of innocents; seven Challengers sacrificed to the hard gods of the Deep Black. (I expected to find more, but that reveals my bias.) I wonder, in the game's setting, what other poems exist. Do work songs fill the radio bands of the railroad crews on Mars? Do emulated infugees have popular music targeted to their demographics filled with covert meanings and clues to the Underground Railroad, after the fashion of Negro spirituals? Who, where, and when, first recited the Koran off-Earth, and the same question for the Bhagavad Gita?