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"Before Apollo"

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"Praise to my big brother
who, while nursing

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his hidden wounds,
turned a refrigerator box

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into a rocket ship.

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Praise his kind heart and quick
mind, his meticulous design

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of the windows, the control
knobs, the dashboard,

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the gadgets he had no
words for but will surely

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need it to survive with
no gravity, no air.

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Praise him for spending
days in our garage

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gazing into the long
hot summer and making

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this contraption with his
bare hands and naked soul,

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for not giving up.

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Praise him for not giving up.

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My brother, who could
have hidden in his room

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or used his hands as
fists, who could have

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scaled the walls of our prison
and escaped but instead built

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a spaceship and asked me inside,
his bratty little sister,

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and turned on that magic-fueled
engine with one twist of a knob

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and yelled, blast
off, not caring

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who heard the
triumph in his voice

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or who saw the
flames in his eyes,

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and shot us up and away from
that harsh patch of Earth

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with its cruel truth and
no one to tell them to,

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all the way up to the
shining face of the moon."

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