Love in a Time of Robot Apocalypse by David Perez

The world might be ending, but David Perez is still paying attention.

In his collection Love in a Time of Robot Apocalypse, Perez sifts through the wreckage, looking for the things that still matter. A ghost is waiting at the neighborhood dive bar. The Challenger disaster echoes through memory. Old lovers still have something to teach us. Perez has a gift for making the strange feel familiar and the ordinary feel miraculous with his animated prose.

These poems are for anyone who's ever looked at a broken world and thought, there has to be something worth saving.

I remember the even tones of my father’s explanation.
As he spoke, it felt like someone was cupping my heart
like the world’s last dinosaur egg,
longing for a time that will never return.

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