Major Tom’s not coming home. He’s out there
\nwatching with a crystal eye as all his
\nworld grows darker in its lusts for light and
\ngrids for power, to sell songs about him.
\nPerhaps someday, when they are marking where
\nthe best billboards go where they won’t block this
\nmoon, they’ll find him floating by his tin can,
\nand call his wife, whose memory’s grown dim.<\/p>\n
“Mrs. Tom, the Major has been found. Just,
\nlisten for a moment, dear, and don’t, please,
\nbe upset that we’ve not called before.
\nHe asked us to, but prudence, well, you must . . ”<\/p>\n
“Please, understand yourself,” the Missus’d wheeze
\n“You left him there to die, and that’s the score.”<\/p>\n
(I always felt they could done more to save him.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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