Poem: ‘Rocket Launch Laconic’ | Scientific American

Poem: ‘Rocket Launch Laconic’

By Julie Dillemuth

Edited by Dava Sobel

Countdown metronomic
Astronomic diastolic
Psychological state cyclonic
Praying atheist ironic

Cacophony chaotic
Blastoff billowing iconic
Liftoff! Spacecraft aeronautic
Rocket supersonic

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Clapping histrionic
Grinning idiotic
Hugging kiss platonic
Gazing up hypnotic

Orbit episodic
Flawless avionic
Systolic now harmonic
Recapping rhapsodic

Nighttime thoughts spasmodic
Therapeutic tonic
Crashed-out catatonic
Dreaming astronautic