And then there were model rockets that climbed rickety ladders
\nof propellant and smoke into the suburban night.
\nMine never launched right. Always shooting sideways or exploding,
\nleaving the grass scorched, leaving the sky unexplored. Leaving
\nmy life once I drove away from friends crying in a diner,
\nand then it was four hundred and forty-three miles of corn
\nand abortion billboards and grain silos. When our world ends
\ninsects will hollow those silos, then hollow the cities,
\nthen hollow of human concepts the world will be simpler
\nlike childhood, or what television advertisements tell us
\nchildhood should be, and rarely is. The ISS is destined
\nto crash into the Pacific in nine years\u2019 time. It seems
\nundignified though really what else could be done, a burning
\njungle gym hurtling to earth. No one goes home unscathed.<\/p>\n
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