It is nine thirty pm, Houston time,
on July twenty, nineteen sixty nine.
Armstrong is the first to wriggle
out of a square hole in the Eagle.
He moves a camera into position
so the world can follow his mission.
“One small step for man, he chimed,
…….one giant leap for mankind.”
Aldrin, now out, joined in recitation,
“beautiful, magnificent desolation”.
While on earth six...
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