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ODE TO A MISSILE

BY

ZANE MESSER

Bright shiny metal and power galore,

It stands like a giant, eighty feet or more.

But its stature is hidden in a dark deep hole,

And its manned by a crew that lives like a mole.

We can never fly it, we were crazy to buy it.

But till I知 promoted or passed over again

I知 doomed to this place, so are all our men.

But when God forgives our wretched souls,

We値l leave this hole to the snakes and moles.

We値l fly away to some far off land,

Where no ones heard of a missile man!

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PRESSURE PATCH

BY

ZANE MESSER

With numbers and markings and colors galore,

Just sitting and watching gives me eyesore.

The needles now rising, now falling,
or is it only hallucinations?

My eyes are seeing all kinds of formations.

Oh, woe is me, call me a hearse.

I知 afraid I致e just let the bulkhead reverse!


Written while a missileer at 550th SMS, SAC, Schilling AFB, Kansas in 1961-1964


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