Sunday, 30 December 2018

Apollo 8



[[ Parts knocked together here for now, for safekeeping. It will be a song or a poem, maybe. ]] 

Three fit ex-fighter pilots 
from battleship states 
packed their flavors of jesus, 
their bulging instructions 
for god, and shot themselves
into the sky to the place 
where no up is, no down, 

absolutely no air, so no sound, 

and slipped round behind 
the man in the moon, 
nestled side by each, out of 
sight for three quarters of 
an hour looking down and 
surveying the wreckage 
while control held its breath. 

When out from behind the
behind at last they came 
and caught earth looking 
back, relieved, the trio 
prayed and took souvenir
shots of the blue ball 
hanging in front of them. 

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