Michael Coy Poet Rhyme

Moon Deniers Unwired

Hey, never mind the hundred thousand folks 
you'd have to keep for decades in the dark - 
the sub-contractors, cleaners, office clerks. 
Hey, never mind the billions such a hoax 

would cost (to really go there works out cheaper!) 
Don't give a thought to scammers, media whores, 
and all those earnest, honest whistle-blowers, 
who gagged to play heroic brother's-keepers 

and get on Charlie Rose. Don't tax your wits 
by wondering how a monumental lie 
could hope to last, or even wonder why 
someone would want to try it. Think of this. 

In early summer, nineteen sixty-nine, 
the Soviet Union hated Uncle Sam. 
If there had been a smidgeon of a scam, 
the Russians would have formed a clamoring line 

of hackers, trackers, eggheads and the rest 
to tell the waiting world, "it isn't so! 
Our satellites confirm, they didn't go!" 
But they said nothing. There's your acid test.

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