GODSPEED
GODSPEED JOHN GLEN*
Have you ever fallen in love with a face?
One that gets inside your skin You may
not even know the owner I did this weekend
with a dead astronaut named Scott: red hair
boyish grin eyes brown doleful one lid droops
face spells trouble He wants more
Married 4x pre-deceased by 2 of 8 children
In the early 60’s on his only spaceflight Scott
missed his landing by 463 kl. Walter Cronkite said:
We may have lost an astronaut Earth waited in solemn silence
Scott was found feet propped up floating in the
Caribbean NASA was not impressed blamed him
for being distracted
Scott said: The view of Mother Earth is addictive
Should you turn your attention to faces you may
want to begin with children Faces in the throes of
transcendence of a metamorphosis so deep that
between birth and 13 there is a brand new being
Forensic artists are enlisted to capture these changes
when young children are kidnapped so that they may be found
The human-face a holy-frontier Godspeed Scott Carpenter
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Tell good and true stories around lonely campfires
They say the nights on Mars are cold and long –
(Scott Carpenter For Spacious Skies)
RIP 1925-2013
Fall 2013 *Scott Carpenter to John Glenn at lift-off 1962
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