Apologies to Papa Heinlein Jeffrey Schwartz (31 Jul 2014 20:43 UTC)
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Apologies to Papa Heinlein Jeffrey Schwartz 31 Jul 2014 20:43 UTC
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.