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The Apollo astronauts,
from what I understand,

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were country music lovers.

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These were guys
from Texas, and they

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would bring records, like
Bob Wills and the Texas

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Playboys on board, like
the Apollo 12 spacecraft.

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And there's this really
interesting, fascinating tension

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and incongruity to
that that I love.

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And this is a poem
called The Country Music

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Lovers of the Spaceship,
that kind of celebrates

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the incongruities
and and tension

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of being a person in a
world of other people.

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The Country Music
Lovers of the Spaceship.

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Your employment is
terminated as of today,

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as is your medical insurance.

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You have the option
of continuing

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your coverage under the COBRA
Act, I could hear myself recite.

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He signed and peeled
out of our office park,

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colliding moments later,
half a mile down the road,

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full speed into a
median, then another car.

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I could hear it.

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Then he was on life support and
then they took him off of it.

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I would recognize that slurred
cumbia bassline, drinking

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liquor in the post
office parking lot

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on Christmas Eve at closing, I
would recognize it underwater.

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I don't understand a word.

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The country music
lovers of the spaceship

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mowed down revelers jammed
up on the crosswalks.

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And the perseverance
of their weekend news

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is my faith, any showered
bible college smile.

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My [? trepan ?] are siloed
and dead bolted down

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little scenarios.

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Their cloud drift maps
screens, dreamful 2-step undoes

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thunderbird-like
claw grips on myself.

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In one such sigh,
I thought I'd make

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it seem I get a kick at living
next to you is all it ever was.

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[APPLAUSE]

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