Major Tom Took a Walk

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The poem “Major Tom Took a Walk” was inspired by David Bowie’s song “Space Oddity”. I get chills when I listen to that song, especially the lines “though I’m past 100,000 miles / I’m feeling very still / and I think my spaceship knows which way to go.”

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Major Tom took a walk stepping past the capsule’s door far above the blue globe in pursuit of so much less those few steps beyond the curb an empty street except for one wishing the crowd was less in the realm of empty space. a void allowing only thoughts that last step two hundred miles with many more far above the journey taken with no return seeking freedom few admit beyond the chains of relevance as the spaceship found its way circuits empty to earth’s dismay.

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