LIFE – PART ONE

Is it a negative hallucination

that we mortals cannot see?

All around us

what linking knot has come asunder?

What forces have come undone

or made invisible?  Who are we?

Is the Anti-Christ real after all?

The wind whispers around me,

fresh and cool for now, but moaning.

Or are those tears?  “Bugs

have invaded my hair!  And

I am running out of air.”

Our dark velvet skies, brighter but not

healthier.  The effusion now includes

“space junk,”  which is tracked.  To which

space will it be delivered,

along with us?

I can remember being gentled by the wind’s

soft kisses.  How long will the memory endure?

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P. S. LETTER TO READERS:  What more can we say or do other than to stir the pot of our knowings, even if it’s too late now to change results?

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YOUR ADDITIONS?

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News Item:

ROBOTIC SPACE PLANES The United States and China currently have reusable robotic spacecraft regularly in orbit: two X-37Bs, built by Boeing and operated by the U.S. Space Force; and a vehicle believed to be operated by the Chinese Ministry of National Defense. Combined, the two X-37B craft have flown six times in space since 2010, most recently landed after 908 days in November 2022.