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IW18 LM15 48 añoSpacio
TuesdayMartes  6 enero/january 2004
48th year of the Space Age





MARS - 1957

Mars came out on the hillside
my 7th birthday meant Sputnik
launched and new world began
talk about Columbus communist

my father showed me red Mars
taught me how this world is round
prophesied the fall of Soviets and
worked science fiction engineer

dreaming art of high pressure
fluids, steam, gas, rocket fuel
drank too much against
broken hope

yet did things with his hands
his work in metal and wood
but I was angry at him for
hitting me and dying unsung

so even a titan at the gates
of Atlantic and Pacific
oceans will carry his name
hero	sailor	  man

requisat in pace  
he built his two boats
and	   sailed	away

this   is   his   only   pearl  .



the sun'll come out tomorrow.... Annnnny buey anyway heh je hey hay jeiiiii
yeah the sun will come out behind the clouds above the sky when the flood to end the ages, this age on the coast of el niño not north

to be or not to be
that is the question

word on page column

S t o p .

this is the time when turnips turn brown
when the rockets that left for Mars
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get there .
I can only make a mark on this page
because Mars taught me how to read
forty-nine years ago, yes, when I was three.

Then there was a loss of signal.
But finally, at one fitting time,

and Spirit calls back. Welcome to Mars
heard your voice on another TV documentary

while only time told terror to stand still.

Gaut... Klatu barada nikto

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