Kenia posts a list in the Garden

Today at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, we are challenged to write a poem using a list of words provided by Kenia, who chose the words at random while leafing through the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? written by Phillip K. Dick, published in 1968 and made into a movie in 1982. The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic near future, where life on Earth has been altered by nuclear war and most of its residents have been relocated to a new colony on Mars.
Interestingly enough, Kenia tells us that in the book, an electric toad teaches the main character, bounty hunter Rick Deckard, a true sense of empathy when he makes up his mind to love the fake toad as if it were real.

illegal stones collection

crestfallen,

different humans

shared doubt

that their

future contained

any possibilities.

ever-present dust

made chance seem dismal.

hours under the fragile

semi-ruined

cardboard roof

seemed like years.

                  Kay Davies, February, 2014

Kenia's List:

Semi-ruined, Shared, Collection, Doubt, Roof , Different, Illegal, Human, Cardboard, Chance, Dismal, Crestfallen, Fragile, Ever-present, Dust, Contained, Possibilities, Future, Stones, Hours.