"... little ordinary lives leading to the grave ..."

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The Dream

We were going out there.
The launchpads at Canaveral are now
Like the temples of Angkor Wat.

A Bath beggar sits cross-legged on the pavement.
The busking string quintet plays
Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance No. 1.

Evensong at Durham Cathedral.
Nine hundred years since this Rocket was launched,
The Industrial Revolution comes to a halt.

A world gone wrong, the faith dissipate.
Fritz Cat's funeral music: a hymn for Glasgow.
Little ordinary lives leading to the grave.

We were going out there.
Ten-year-old boys kill toddlers.
We save our poison for this planet.

We were going out there.