Apollo 11
doctor can you
see me now
i'm the patient
with impatience
i grew up in an
age of war of
racism for me
with little
anxiety
but
then they threw
in the words
space
race
and i winced
when the
starting
gun went
off
forever plant in g
in me
a certain sense of
tension like stretching
these wor-were-words
where we're now
worried
i live a life in
competition
so to survive
i need to
forge t a
bout lag
time
there once was
a selfserved me
generation but
they died out
selectively
but the adapt
able evolved
ones created
what is now
the seemingly
unreality of
now not
then but
now
doctor
give me
a sedative
now
Copyright © Jeff Connelly | Year Posted 2019
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