The FAB&PP Poem of the Month for July 2011
July special (an editorial poem)
i.
flap the flaps
and
gimbal
the engines
locked to
the
pad
waiting
for
the
double
shove
into
motion
ii
un
imaginative
com
promised
orbiting
too
low and in
the
wrong
plane
over
promised
and
over
budget
under
flown and
much less
loved
than
it ought to
be
one in
sixty seven
lost to
bad design
and
arrogance
iii.
the
most
magnificent
yet
while
on the
other con
tinent
the
freight
train
lumbers down
its track to
Gagarin's pit
ready
and
willing
to fly
again