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The International Space Station 

witnesses 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets each day 

 

A child throws watercolour shoals at the wall 

awed by the beautiful carnage he created 

 

One day he may read  

a poem about butterflies 

guillotined in thresher blades,  

and think of this moment 

 

Laika hollered at scarecrows in the skies 

circumvented gravity with fatal fear, 

final bones she ever chased 

lay in seabed wreckage, beneath her 

 

Yuri Gagarin’s diving board was 

the Kremlin compressed upon his chest, 

yet still he fell… 

 

and drowned 

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