On the One: A Star Child’s Guide to Cosmic Harmony. Story by Samantha Williams Cosmic Art by ChatGPT 
Do you know what happens as we rotate around the Sun? When day and night switch around. While you’re waking up or heading to bed. 
Time clocks out for eight hours straight. No cancellation! No debate! It’s the cosmic mandate! 
The Galaxy Club opens its doors. Rhythms rip the floor off the ground. Music notes flip the roof upside down. DJ Saturn on the Ones and Twos. Spinning disco, funk and Afrofuturistic blues. 
The Moon and the Sun, after working all day and night. Put on their dancing shoes. Craving a freak-out beat that’ll make the stars weep. 
Get on up with the get down. Under the asteroid chandelier. Nebulae, stars and Constellations glide. Everybody’s doing the electric slide. The bass shakes your bones. Love levitates your soul — that feeling never gets old. 
When thirst or hunger hit, the bar and kitchen can make whatever you wish. Or grab a ready-to-go anti-gravity dish. Sunbeam Sangria. Pluto Punch. Meteor Popcorn Chicken Bites. Cosmic Cornbread. Watermelon and Waffles (for the travel back to Earth). 
Dancing Kings, Queens, Non-Binaries. Welcome! If dancing ain’t your thing, Slide through to the Interstellar Rollerskating Rink. 
You think you’re ready for the funk? Well … If you’re fortunate enough to feel the Mothership cruising by. You just gotta wave it down. For a Black Magic ticket to Funky Town. 
Dr. Funkenstein has the final say. But to enter, you gotta declare, with funkified flair: Star Child Reporting, for Cosmic Harmony. Where Young Hearts Run Wild and Free. Funk Calibration — Bop Frequency.
Eight Hours of Funk started as a poem and became an intergalactic invocation of Black love, Black joy, and Black liberation.
Inspired by the mythology of Parliament’s Mothership, disco anthems, and the sacred power of love and music. This piece reimagines the cosmos as a space where rhythm is law, love is liberation, and everyone gets to glide. (if the slideshow is hard to read you can download or scroll through the pdf below.
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