Area 51: a three-person rengay

January 24, 2025

Area 51: a three-person rengay

By pure coincidence, Area 51 is the 51st rengay to come off the Three Musketeers’ press!

Area 51

Cast
(in order of appearance)
written by
David Bogomolny (db), Lesley Scoble (ls), Melissa Lemay (ml),

db:     my fave office spouse—
          ChatGPT saves me hours, yet
          no coffee breaks shared

ml:     men flocking in droves
           to AI girlfriends

ls:      def haiku():
               line1 = "intelligence.boot()"
               line2 = "knowledge.access(all_human)"
               line3 = "invasion.process()"

db:      browser history cleared—
            Girl v2.0 purrs: "I'm still here"

ml:      mind blown
           overridden
           by algorithm

ls:       def stanza():
               line1 = “assimilation.active = true”
               line2 = “undercover_ops.running()”
               return f”{line1}\n{line2}”


_{David Bogomolny, Melissa Lemay, Lesley Scoble, January 2025}

Please head over to David’s site, The Skeptics Kaddish, where you can find all the rengays written so far. And discover more about the rengay and collaborative poetry.

Area 51, or: A rengay

Def display credits():

title = “CREDITS”

   message = “Thanks to David and Melissa for all the fun in the writing of our 
   51st three-person rengay collaboration!”

print(title)
print(message)Message = “Thank you, dear reader, for reading! Over and out.”

Lesley lives in the City of London Square Mile. An artist, actor and sculptor (her first ceramic sculpture won the V&A inspired by… Award). Scenic artist & book illustrator, playwright (her musical play, Rapscallion performed in inner city schools and theatre school); TV dancer; mime artist; Animator and illustrator for TV production. Set up Pinecone Studios Ltd and IIMSI Ltd drama and filmmaking workshops in London – producing award-winning films made by children.