August 20, 2024
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Poem: ‘Rocket Launch Laconic’
Science in meter and verse
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
