Tuesday, 28 August 2012

The sun
Opens wide
For Earth’s first
Man of the moon
Today died

Neil Armstrong

First to open
The ring pull
And taste man’s
Most bleak frontier
Two steps apart from
Couch’d America
Yet to boast
O’ lunar fear

First freeman
Of Lagholm
Seat of Clan Armstrong

Spokesman for
US businesses only

Decliner of autographs
And one time Barber-litigator

A deist, believer
In the
Expanding void
Of reason

Born 5 August 1930

For heaven
Here we sleep
Bestride the junkyard stars
Made of Earth’s
Eternal creep

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