Sunday, July 7, 2024

 

Quotation marks


At 2:00 am I watched the International Space Station go by. 

Just another "star" in my dog’s eyes, if she’d even looked up, if it had caught her attention like a seagull on the beach. There’s people up there I told her, 4 limbed, 2 eyed mammals like us. The first mammalian Astronaut was a dog, like you, called Laika.

The “Far Left” beat the “Far right” in France tonight, 

I got bet by King Queen suited in the poker tourney tonight.


Why are they planning a controlled destructive de-orbit of the space station?

If they’re going to all that trouble, why not push it out, use it, re-use it

I have no idea about these things.

But I have some idea rockets and jet engines and internal combustion engines and electric motors and Astronauts, and the inconvenient properties of the "prophet"

I'm not lost, utterly lost.

I still believe in work, I still respect the effort,

that makes the "star"-like space station move, through the night sky

in light of all the miserable resentment

that pits us against ourselves

anything but face the vastness of space