I saw a photo of Neil Armstrong’s suit in National Geographic or something…

Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit
sucked out
smoothed out
dried out
and mounted on the wall

It sags a bit
where you don’t expect

I look away
it doesn’t need privacy
but I don’t need reminders

(27 January 2020—posted January 29)

 

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