The Space Age A Sonnet Poem by Daniel Brick

A rocket takes off from from Dillon's Run Base
and launches toward the x-ray binary star system
called CHANDRA. The crew is evenly divided between
Engineers, who manage the space travel technology,
plot the course unerringly, and monitor hundreds
of cybernetic siblings, and we poets and ambassadors,
whose mission begins when the engineers' is finished.
They return but we remain as guests of the Autarch of
the watery metropolis of Mercier 976 for the whole
of our mortality. Such is our choice to serve two masters,
Earthly and Chandran, and blend our mammalian culture
with their reptilian culture, to make common cause
with all creatures for the expansion of civilization
across the Universe and the triumph of the Space Age.