“Had we but world enough, and time,
This love, my sweet, were no crime
We would sit down and think which way
To walk, and pass our sleepless day;
Thou by the Raiders’ side
Shouldst Cola find; I by the tide
Of the Wasteland would complain. We are
Finding remnants from before the war;
And you should, if you please, lie
Till Brotherhood has all died.
My vegetable garden should grow
to feed the settlers, but quite slow.
An hundred hours should go to praise
Thine terrain, and with my own eyes gaze;
Two hundred to adore each beast
But thirty thousand to all else, at least;
A save at least to every part,
And the last save would break my heart.
For, my sweet, you deserve this state,
Nor would I enjoy at lower rate.
But from my wrist I always hear
The Super Mutants all charging near,
And yonder all before us lie
Wastelands of vast eternity.
Thy secrets will no more be found,
Nor, in thy massive Vault, shall sound
The Radio Stations; the ghouls shall take
That long preserved Power Armor,
And your Steel honour turn to hate
And into cryopod until a later date.
The Vault’s a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.
Now therefore, while the hot rod hue
Sits on thy armor like morning dew,
And while thy killing soul transpires
At every character with instant fires.
Now let us fight ghouls while we may;
And now, like wild mongrels of prey,
Rather at once our time devour,
Than we have a suit of armor without power.
Let us roll all our intelligence, and all
Our perception, up into one pill;
And tear through enemies with a knife
Until the reaches of death take our life.
Thus, though we cannot make our gun
Gain ammo, yet we will make ghouls run.”
“To His Copy of Fallout” ~ Jakespeare