CAPTIONS
Before long I was feeling nothing:
the astronauts had fallen back into the sea,
their flaming spaceship like some antique
basket tumbling from afar. Cameramen with
big nerve nosed right up to the window.
'Tell us how you feel, what you saw, what
it was really like.' They all seemed to talk
at once. Then I envisioned what I saw as well:
the capsule door opened and, amidst pale
orange flames, a tall man stepped out, in
his clumsy suit, and began quite simply
walking away on the water.
-
('Bird's-eye sing-song caterwaul chap,
who's the man in the pink feathered cap?')...
Telegrams were falling from the doorway
slot stop white envelopes lined in blue
stop will return stop later perhaps
stop yours forever stop garland.
-
The city awoke from its very grave sleep:
two more dead men, three more shootings,
four babies somehow thrown from roofs,
five rapes, six homicides, and seven minutes
away from the doorways (plural) to Hell.
Before long I was feeling nothing:
the astronauts had fallen back into the sea,
their flaming spaceship like some antique
basket tumbling from afar. Cameramen with
big nerve nosed right up to the window.
'Tell us how you feel, what you saw, what
it was really like.' They all seemed to talk
at once. Then I envisioned what I saw as well:
the capsule door opened and, amidst pale
orange flames, a tall man stepped out, in
his clumsy suit, and began quite simply
walking away on the water.
-
('Bird's-eye sing-song caterwaul chap,
who's the man in the pink feathered cap?')...
Telegrams were falling from the doorway
slot stop white envelopes lined in blue
stop will return stop later perhaps
stop yours forever stop garland.
-
The city awoke from its very grave sleep:
two more dead men, three more shootings,
four babies somehow thrown from roofs,
five rapes, six homicides, and seven minutes
away from the doorways (plural) to Hell.
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