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    Tuesday, December 27, 2016

    FOR CARRIE FISHER

    by William Cullen Jr.






    A princess without a royal entourage
    always out there with riffraff and rebels
    plotting against an empire
    for a yet unnamed republic
    ready to spill your blue-blood
    for the stardust of all people
    you shift now to another dimension
    as only our memories can glimpse you
    moving forward at light speed
    you show us the way to freedom.


    William Cullen Jr. is a veteran and works at a social services non-profit in Brooklyn, NY. His poetry has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Canary, Gulf Stream, Right Hand Pointing, Star*Line, and Written River: A Journal of Eco-Poetics.

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