                   Incident Along Fantasy Way 

Somewhere on the way from the Home Stars
To the Lost and Alas Cluster,
In the emptiness between spiral arms, 
Hangs a strange construction
Thousands of centuries old
And thousands of centuries deserted.  

Most of its interior is a museum
Devoted to teaching the language
Of the inscription it was built to display:
"In memory of the Old Stars,
 Shining when nothing could see their light
 Nor feel their warmth,
 Then dying to give us the elements
 That we are made of."




                                        Thomas G. Digby
                                        written 0030 hr 12/25/74
                                        entered 2330 hr  3/16/92

