Marvellous - thank you.

tc

> On 31 Jul 2014, at 21:58, Jeffrey Schwartz <schwartz.jeffrey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sometimes I get all poeticish...
>
> and it's prolly barely ObTrav, if you view it the right way.
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Like barb wire ties around me
> tightening and cutting all my girth
> are all the stupid laws
> Of the nanny state of Earth.
>
> The arching sky is calling
> Spacemen  to their trade.
> ALL HANDS! STAND BY! FREE FALLING!
> But the call is allowed to fade
>
> A third or more of what I made
> goes to EBT and things
> that insure that I'll never fly
> near Saturn's rainbow rings
>
> We're denied each spinning space mote
> As they steal all that's worth:
> Taken from us the homes of men
> and locked us to the Earth.
>
> No longer ride the sons of Terra,
> silent the thundering jet,
> a shackled race of Earthmen,
> whipped dogs, once the lone wolf's get.
>
> We rot in the molds of Vegas,
> We retch at New York's tainted breath.
> Foul are her urban jungles,
> Crawling with unclean death
>
> My heart breaks in longing
> As I stare at the voids between
> To out along the spaceways
> Until what my soul hears is seen
>
> Across the seas of darkness
> looking up from Earth's blight
> wishing another Star was my homeland
> Praying it shine down on me tonight.
>
> Cursed with life in prison
> since the moment of my birth
> Damned to ever hear the lies
> of the morons that rule the Earth
>
> I pray for just one launching
> On the globe that gave us birth
> to escape to the fleecy skies
> And from the cold dark streets of Earth.
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