Falcon 9 private rocket lifts off for International Space Station
The Independent, 22 May 2012
Thunderbirds are gone.
Those men whose thoughts stayed on the moon
when they felt the weight of our earth
in the night sky above them
brought it home to us
with cosmic rock.
Marooned, here
at the pinnacle of our ascent,
abandoned goats alone on a rooftop,
a vanishing atoll in a rising sea of floating limbs
and nine-tenths hidden bloated shapes,
we eat the thatch
from under ourselves,
shifting our feet to reach an unsoiled patch.
O, to once more split infinitives:
subspace communicators, lunar bases,
doors that go 'shhhhh'.
Shhhhh...
The spirit of free enterprise
has a date tonight with Thunderbird 5.
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