Space Oddity

POETRY SLAM + SONG STORY TIME.

Long overdue tribute to David Bowie. Forgive me pls

Ground Control to Major Tom

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at Berkelionite Station, 2050 A.D.

I remember

Waving goodbye to him

Ground Control to Major Tom

even when the capsule doors closed,

I still stood there stupidly,

Take your protein pills and put your helmet on

moving my paw back and forth

Ground Control to Major Tom

ten, nine, eight, seven, six

and staring up into the sky until I could see the capsule

Commencing countdown, engines on

five, four, three

containing my most beloved Panthera tigris

Check ignition and may God's love be with you

no more.

two, one, liftoff

Back to Mt. Shiveer, back to the snow leopard shrine

This is Ground Control to Major Tom

I later learn,

You've really made the grade

that he has, according to scientists at Berklionite Station,

And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear

passed the Moon, going up,

Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

up, up, up...

I know I shall see my beloved again.

And yet, a terrible feeling inside says otherwise..

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This is Major Tom to Ground Control

Glancing down,

I try to pretend I can still see Earth's beautiful snowy mountains as I step out

I'm stepping through the door

The mountains that house my dear Panthera uncia

Did they really think I could survive this long... and on mashed yams? They're all gone.

And I'm floating in a most peculiar way

I can't feel my legs.

And the stars look very different today

Why can't I feel my legs? Why, oh why, did I take that--

For here am I

I can't feel my arms, either. I can't feel anything.

Sitting in a tin can

Far above the world

Feebly,

I manage to grip the radio.

Planet Earth is blue

I know what will happen. I press the green button, still floating endlessly...

And there's nothing I can do

I desperately speak to them, the people I hate for taking her away from me...

Though I'm past one hundred miles

" Tell...Tell her this, please...

I'm feeling very still

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go

Goodbye, my love...."

Tell my wife I love her very much she knows

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Ground Control to Major Tom

Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong

Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Can you

Here I am floating 'round my tin can

Far above the moon

Planet Earth is blue

And there's nothing I can do

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