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I applied recently to go
up on the space shuttle.

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I'm smiling because I think
my odds of being chosen

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to do this are pretty slim.

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But I would like
to go very much.

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And I've written a poem
about the space shuttle.

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I don't think that this is going
to work the oracle for me--

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my writing them poems about it.

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"By all-star orchestra,
they dine in space.

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In a long steel muscle
so fast, it floats.

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In a light waltz, they
lie still as amber,

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watching Earth stir in
her sleep beneath them.

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They have brought along a plague
of small winged creatures whose

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brains are tiny
as computer chips.

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Flight is the puzzle, the
shortest point between 2 times.

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In zero gravity, their hearts
will be light, not 3 pounds

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of blood, dream, and gristle.

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When they were young, the sky
was a tree whose cool branches

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they climbed, sweaty in August.

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And now they are
the sky children

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imagine as invisible limbs.

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On the console, a light
summons them to the moment.

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And they must choose between
the open mouthed delirium

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in their cells, the awe
ballooning beyond the jet

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stream, or husband all
that is safe and tried.

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They are good providers.

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Their eyes do not wander.

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Their fingers do not pause
at the prick of a switch.

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Their mouths open for
sounds no words rush into.

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Answer the question,
put at half garble.

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Say again how the
cramped world turns.

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Say again."

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