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2title: On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site
3genre: verse
4
5id: apollo11
6toc: "On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site"
7
8ekphrastic:
9 image: "panorama-apollo11.jpg"
10 title: "Big deal."
11 link: "http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141220.html"
12
13project:
14 title: Elegies for alternate selves
15 class: elegies
16 order: 5
17 next:
18 - title: Ars poetica
19 link: arspoetica
20 prev:
21 - title: And
22 link: and
23...
24
25| So it's the [fucking moon][]. Big deal. As if
26| you haven't seen it before, tacked to the sky
27| like a [rotten hunk of meat][], a maudlin love
28
29| letter (the _i_s dotted with hearts) hung
30| on the sky like ninety-eight theses.
31| Don't stare at it like it means anything.
32
33| Walk past it quickly, eyes averted.
34| Don't give it the chance to collect meaning
35| from your [outstretched hand like a pigeon][].
36
37| Ascribing it a will, calling it fickle, or
38| thinking it has any say or even an opinion
39| of your affairs is a mistake: it's separated
40
41| from you by three hundred eighty thousand miles
42| of emptiness, staring at you blankly like a child
43| or your reflection when you found your love broken
44
45| in the dark, when time fell apart, broke down,
46| started following you around everywhere, [moonfaced][],
47| doggedly asking where you're going, like you know.
48
49| Don't try side stepping time, either: it's only
50| a river you're stuck in, [carrying you][] under the glare
51| of the moon nuzzling closer, cooing in your ear
52
53| like a dove that escapes into the empty sky at dawn.
54
55[fucking moon]: deathstrumpet.html
56[rotten hunk of meat]: roughgloves.html
57[outstretched hand like a pigeon]: last-passenger.html
58[moonfaced]: boy_bus.html
59[carrying you]: music-433.html