Poem  : One-way space ticket--6Sep2024

ONE-WAY SPACE TICKET…

Part 1
1st stanza
Be prais’d the space travels :
Verily be they lofty marvels…
Everything hath been consider’d :
All contingencies have been bolster’d…

2nd
It hath all been rehears’d and drill’d out :
With us there be no messing about;
'Tis hath all become routine stuff now :
On any contingency we deploy somehow.

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Part 2

3rd
Yet, about the hiding  anomalies the poet bellows :
SpaceX and Boeing were strange bedfellows…
All their stuff were not inter-changeable :
Alas, there was bound to arise trouble… 

4th
In spite of decades of experience,
Finally deficient was found to be space science.
Well may the aloft travellers jump and saunter :
Was awaiting to strike some sinister disaster…

5th
Ah, the glory and marvels of space travel :
But suddenly reality impact’d the marvel :
The space-borne and ground staff
Sadly were compell’d to chaff…

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6th
Medical issues can plague at any moment :
Suddenly might be unleash’d some terrible lament :
What if the man overnight falls to some medical condition,
The sort of which we have couch’d in poetic rendition ?...

7th
Can the man be subject’d to some medical operation
While orbiting in yon narrow racing coffin ?...
Well may one dismiss the raving ragamuffin :
A reality check hath land’d in poetic fashion… 

8th
From the design flaw in nature in the male body,
Some hyperplasia can floor the man insidiously,
For, the illness can strike quite perniciously :
Take note, those that ridicule the malady…

9th and last
The malady can strike on land, at sea,
Under the sea, in the desert, in polar regions,
In space : of no use will be any piteous plea :
Man be destin’d to some sorry contortions…

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Refer to :
(a) My poem “The poet’s tale.”
https://allpoetry.com/poem/17523975--The-poet-s-tale----9-December--2023-by-Soman-Ragavan
(b) My poem “The order of the urethra.”
https://allpoetry.com/poem/17990353-The-most-distinguished-order-of-the-urethra--6-Sep-2024-by-Soman-Ragavan
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Soman Ragavan. Written on 6 September, 2024
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