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A small step A giant leap with Chirps and tweeps Tween Houston and there Playing on the RCA Console color TV In the living room When I was eleven Something stirring In my pre-adolescent soul An ache; a yearning Still with me now Every launch since Plumes of vapor and smoke Lifting humans that Challenge mortality Every view of this blue mote Seen from afar dazzles me Earth rise from the moon Dancing auroras from ISS I could see the Milky Way there Lucky rural boy I was I can see the Milky Way here Lucky rural man I am I want us to go I want us to know I want us to yearn To learn “Are we alone?” A kid then, adult now I want to remove my glasses As Cronkite did then When we set foot on Mars
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Sep 22, 2018
Sep 22, 2018 at 3:21 PM UTC
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A small step A giant leap with Chirps and tweeps Tween Houston and there Playing on the RCA Console color TV In the living room When I was eleven Something stirring In my pre-adolescent soul An ache; a yearning Still with me now Every launch since Plumes of vapor and smoke Lifting humans that Challenge mortality Every view of this blue mote Seen from afar dazzles me Earth rise from the moon Dancing auroras from ISS I could see the Milky Way there Lucky rural boy I was I can see the Milky Way here Lucky rural man I am I want us to go I want us to know I want us to yearn To learn “Are we alone?” A kid then, adult now I want to remove my glasses As Cronkite did then When we set foot on Mars
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Sep 22, 2018
Sep 22, 2018 at 3:21 PM UTC
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