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Man From the Moon

Said a man returned from the moon “I fear I have come back too soon, For I left about seven On my journey to heaven And here it is now only noon.”
written, Winter 1972 edited June 29, 2021 [first published in The Hoosier Challenger, 1972; republished in ByLine, Summer, 1989]

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Date: 6/30/2021 11:10:00 PM
This is hilarious! Love it!
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L Milton Hankins
Date: 7/1/2021 7:46:00 AM
Thanks. I wrote that back when going to the moon was a big, big thing.

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