Space Exploration
With all those suns, the sky’s a freckle-face place,
Earth serving as a base for the great space race
where nations strove to top each other. Far star,
asteroid, moon, gas giant, granite planet—
no matter the reach, men hoped to span it, scan it
for life or water. They even built a star-car
that moved at nearly lightning-speed. A vast blast
propelled it toward the future or the past. Last
year the space race died like a squashed mite. Night
has spread round Earth. Aliens, offended, ended
man’s trips and explorations, ended splendid
sentient life forms. Win some, lose some. Quite right!
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