Apollo

Apollo.
Where did the optimism go?
Yom Kippur.
Oil price hikes.
Inflation.
All that shit.
Program cancellation.
Watergate.
Cynicism.
Mistrust.
Self-recrimination.
Self-loathing.
Self-regard.
Environmental disaster,
fed, ironically, by Apollo’s view
of the miraculously suspended blue Earth.
The end of ideology.
The start of holier than thou.
The blame generation.
The crisis of humankind,
that killed ‘For all Mankind’.
Where are the space stations?
The trips to Mars?
The adventure?
Where went the ‘Earth View’?
The credulity?
Who killed the big narrative?
Where does he live?
Why am I sick to my guts?
What can I give to my kids?
It was going so well in TV21,
but 21C pissed all over it.
For God’s sake someone make Buzz Aldrin mayor.
Sort this fucking mess out
before we end up beating each other to shit
with thigh-bones.
Efficiency is no substitute for hope.
How did we get from the peak of human endeavour
to this foetid swamp in so short a time?
Will those in the know please tell me?
Roger fucking bleep!