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2title: 'On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 10
5genre: 'verse'
6...
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8title: On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site
9genre: verse
10
11project:
12 title: Elegies for alternate selves
13 css: elegies
14 order: 4
15 next:
16 title: Ars poetica
17 link: arspoetica
18 prev:
19 title: And
20 link: and
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22
23So it's the [fucking moon][]. Big deal. As if \
24you haven't seen it before, hanging in the sky \
25like a piece of [rotten meat][] nailed to the wall,
26
27a maudlin love letter (the i's dotted with [hearts][]) \
28tacked to the sky's door like ninety-eight theses. \
29Don't stare at it like it means anything.
30
31Don't give it the chance to collect meaning \
32from your hand like an old pigeon. Don't dare ascribe \
33it a will, or call it fickle, or think it has any say
34
35in your affairs. It's separated from your life \
36by three hundred eighty-four thousand miles of space, \
37the same distance you stepped away from time that night
38
39you said your love was broken, a crippled gyroscope \
40knocking in the dark. It was then that time fell apart, \
41had a nervous breakdown and started following you
42
43everywhere, moonfaced, always asking where you're going. \
44You keep trying to get away from it but it nuzzles closer \
45and sings you songs that sound like the cooing of a dove \
46that will only escape again into an empty sky at dawn.
47
48[fucking moon]: deathstrumpet.html
49[rotten meat]: roughgloves.html
50[hearts]: proverbs.html