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I'll close with this poem
that's a little bit longer.

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It's also in two parts.

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It was written in a response
to one of the news about travel

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to outer space.

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And not just travel to, but
efforts to move to outer space.

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To live on Mars,
live on the moon.

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And this poem is
written from the point

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of view of those I
imagine already there,

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asking of us what it
is that we are doing.

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"The Disclosure of the
Moon by its Sentries."

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One.

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"Those of you on the Earth,
a blue and green wash

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of your collective breaths.

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Why is it that you appeal to
something or someone above you?

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Are we not your equal
and your companion?

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Often we ask ourselves, why
do we bury your curiosities,

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your poetry launched
toward the heavens

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as so many manned and empty
ships moored, unmoored,

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and abandoned?

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Are they not trophies
that are better buried

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or better yet unsent?

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How are we to bury your fear,
which rockets towards us even

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as it backfires?

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We're not your gods
nor your watchdogs.

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Can't you tell?

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We're simply dreaming
as you dream.

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Awakened every
time you land on us

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with a violence that
reverberates forever

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as poor rocks.

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How do you feel
when you don't bathe

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in our light for a few
hours of an evening on Earth

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with your arm around your date?

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Is the full moon, on clear
mornings, a lost ring

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filled with your expectations?

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While you appear not to
understand our gaze upon you,

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which is merely a
brush with experience,

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how do you think it feels to be
exposed by mighty telescopes,

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as if you're a
pervert at a keyhole?

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By a lake of lazy
multiplying algae,

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or an ocean edged with a hard,
deteriorating ribbon of coral,

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you gaze with a longing
out of all proportion

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to our light indifferent touch.

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Is it moonlessness in
particular that you ambush?

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Because from emptiness, you
seem to squeeze the greatest

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meaning.

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Stranger, we only ask because
we're loyal and hospitable.

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What do you crave
first when you arrive?

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Is it taste?

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So, will you taste
your honeydew now?"

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Two.

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"Does spring or
summer feel early?

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Is that why you pool
your feelings in ice

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and why you store
your ideas in a suit?

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Has a memory returned to you?

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Is that from
childhood or invented?

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We miss the beehives of
love, too few to perish.

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Was that too few or too true?

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You act side of sorts.

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Is your restlessness
your trust issue?

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For our part, we'd rather
not have to move again.

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Will you apply your
considerable experience

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of language and things to us?

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Please don't make too
much of our darkness.

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Do the purples
and reds of nature

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console, or do thoughts
of hyacinths and bluebells

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confuse you?

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Do lilacs prove you had a soul?

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Cross the Great Basalt slowly.

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There is no trading
for other questions.

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Do you grasp how the list
got cut off after worm,

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rose, turtle, and leaf,
and that we have nothing

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to do with it without
a care in the world?

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Can you accept that,
without time, you're

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really the only pilgrim here?

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Space trash forever.

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Where does that leave you?

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Dressed, undressed,
ready or not.

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Do you regard your recent shift
as a newly discovered idea?

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Did you notice any monsters?

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No need to answer.

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With knives in their throats.

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Is your guilt or
innocence a big concern?

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This is not a trade for sex
or request for confession.

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No blade is involved at all.

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Are you making your own
inquiry, because absent a body,

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you have to ask
yourself, who's there?

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If the last thing there
is the first here,

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will spirit be enough?

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Do you know the future
without you does not hurt?

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The knife is rubber.

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Are you prepared to guard
nothing rather than something?"

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Thank you.

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