Kit Kelen #1407

1407

Kessler syndrome

it’s wrong to wish on space hardware

I wish, I wish, I wish you’d care

               - Billy Bragg

some might say junk

but won’t delete

there’s always the risk

debris

what if it goes wrong?

the over and above all

like a diamond from

shine, burn

swerve of the atoms

think dinosaurs in space collide

skies fall, as long foretold

all we’ve told goes round

won’t quite go away

lawyers of it murmur

out of this world cascading

a rubbish edge and faraway

come home

it’s like the facts, like seas

washing-go-round

who’ll watch?

there’s that which we won’t know

the up above’s all that and more

pluck the idea out of

map the hours, call out

how if we lose low earth orbit

we’ll all be back in the fifties

in vastnesses, all falling, falling

come to me my

gone things, bones of what

thought, felt, was

all toys

a footprint

how many will have signed by then?

tipping point of unintended consequence

tick tock

and stops

wind up again

‘heaven’s above’

they’ll say