# we came across a pod of sleeping holographic whales ir infinitely graceful oceanic verticality floated high and silent above the fresh morning greenness of our lawn and was beautiful to behold they gently swayed under a fine silent invisible aether wind from clear lands to the ancient mystic east we awoke one of the whales with our designer bioelectric strimmer and a giant eye slowly opened to stare at us in quiet surprise one huge startled flipper then casually whacked us half a mile away into the next county we eventually landed in a slime-covered pond in a town square and were almost instantly fined by a passing robocop for body littering without a license for these are now the default days of our intense scientific lives // republic of bob