I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain… Time to die.

Roy Batty, Blade Runner

Gono had a name with two long O’s
And a distinctive way of talking

When a friend asked What are you doing?
Gono would reply About to make lunch
Or About to go to work

Never Eating lunch
Or Working

Those close to Gono
Grinned at the quirk for decades

About the number of years most humans
Are allowed to answer friends’ questions

And then

When Gono found himself in the hospital
A friend asked How are you doing?

About to die Gono replied
About to die

—P.L. Thomas