04-27-2025, 04:33 PM
The first all-woman flight to space was done
not by those often spun as winners of the race
simply by first debarking on the moon,
but by the actual winners, those who had achieved
all of the other firsts---the first man-made
satellite to orbit the earth, the first
vertebrate to orbit and die, to orbit
and live, the first man, the first group of men---
and all before the beast they once abolished,
Capital, slouched toward Moscow again
to be born in the form of Brezhnev-era bribes,
all before Krushchev's vow of twenty years
was falsified, all while the blood of Poles,
Kazakhs, Ukrainians, Adygheans, and the like
not by those often spun as winners of the race
simply by first debarking on the moon,
but by the actual winners, those who had achieved
all of the other firsts---the first man-made
satellite to orbit the earth, the first
vertebrate to orbit and die, to orbit
and live, the first man, the first group of men---
and all before the beast they once abolished,
Capital, slouched toward Moscow again
to be born in the form of Brezhnev-era bribes,
all before Krushchev's vow of twenty years
was falsified, all while the blood of Poles,
Kazakhs, Ukrainians, Adygheans, and the like