22nd January 2014

Sonnet 76

"Hello world"* - we've got this weird sense of pride

In some spacecraft baby probing to change

(That's Man's scant second from midnight aside)

The view from where we came from - Big Big Strange...

Did love or sex in a void feel the same

For us (who're just one up from GM weed,

The stoneside of  stone sings our lover name:

"Rosetta are you betta...?"**)...?...We'll proceed...

Mr. Belea***, (Thank God?) they helped you...

Lost in the Underground (an argument...

With sliding doors...) what strangers do (not new)

...Still few aeons til sun's kindness gets spent.

So, we're rained-on space dust: same old same old...

I need what's under the sun**** to be told.


*Spacecraft Rosetta's first message  after hibernation on journey to land on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and provide crucial insights into the evolution of the solar system and life on Earth.

**Sung by Georgie Fame and Alan Price, reached no. 11 in UK chart in April 1971.

***"A Romanian tourist lost for four days in London survived through the kindness of strangers, according to his family."
The Times , January 21 2014.

****Ecclesiastes 6:1 "There is an evil that lies under the sun..." - yes, but...