Refugees from OneNote Planet
– Beginning of Confidential Message from the Immigration Committee of the Inter-Planetary Council to the Karmic Committee of Planet 3 of the Solar System –
We do not approve of your actions in letting these Sound Engineers stay on your sorry planet. There is no need to remind us that the above decision was taken by the Inter-Planetary Juridical Council, and not by our petty selves. We know that.
What we don’t know, is how their lawyer dug up the jurisprudence to win this case! How in the galaxy were we to know that one Tupharan had been granted asylum in Sushostra on the basis of the fact that his own planet was too boring for him to stay there.
If you can discover this fact for us, then we could find out a way to lighten your ‘sanctions’ as you call them. We suppose that brainless behavior could be construed as ‘interesting’ by those of a very low IQ. Also, can you not contrive to be boring? At least in the metropolis where these engineers are stationed? What do you call it? Miami? Can’t all the inhabitants of that place just behave in the most robotic way possible? That would induce these sound people to go back home, where they’re needed to churn out streams of music for the grey committee.
– End of Confidential Message from the Immigration Committee of the Inter-Planetary Council to the Karmic Committee of Planet 3 of the Solar System –
Sultana Raza’s poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Columbia Journal, and The New Verse News, London Grip, Classical Poetry Society, spillwords, Poetry24, Dissident Voice, and The Peacock Journal. Her fiction has received an Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train Review (USA), and has been published in Coldnoon Journal, Szirine, apertura, Entropy, and ensemble (in French). She has read her fiction/poems in India, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, England, Ireland, and the US. Sultana recommends MSF.
