E=MC2 (poem)

"E=MC2" is a speculative poem written by American advertising executive and television advertising pioneer Rosser Reeves. It was published in the September, 1961 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The poem describes the end of the Earth (possibly from a nuclear war) as observed by aliens on a distant planet. Reeves published a number of fantastic poems under his own name and pseudonyms.[1]

Style and structure

The 16-lines of free verse does not follow any particular poetic structure.

gollark: Well, skin isn't a very good thermal conductor, so you would probably have to pump blood into and out of your hand too.
gollark: Programmers are expensive. Compute time is cheap. If they could write reasonably usable code automatically, they could outcompete everyone else.
gollark: It's not that simple, or someone would already have *done* this and taken over the entire software industry.
gollark: This has been done.
gollark: Not sure if that went anywhere.

References
  1. Halberstam, David The Fifties, pp. 225. Villard Books, 1993
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