<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">1969</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The summer everyone left for the moon</div><div class="">even those yet to be born. And the dead</div><div class="">who can’t vacation here but met us all there</div><div class="">by the veil between worlds. The number one song</div><div class="">in America was “In the Year 2525”</div><div class="">because who has ever lived in the present</div><div class="">when there’s so much of the future</div><div class="">to continue without us.</div><div class="">How the best lover won’t need to forgive you</div><div class="">and surely take everything off your hands</div><div class="">without having to ask, without knowing</div><div class="">your name, no matter the number of times</div><div class="">you married or didn’t, your favorite midnight movie,</div><div class="">the cigarettes you couldn’t give up,</div><div class="">wanting to kiss other people you shouldn’t</div><div class="">and now to forever be kissed by the Earth.</div><div class="">In the Earth. With the Earth.</div><div class="">When we all briefly left it</div><div class="">to look back on each other from above,</div><div class="">shocked by how bright even our pain is</div><div class="">running wildly beside us like an underground river.</div><div class="">And whatever language is good for,</div><div class="">a sign, a message left up there that reads:</div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">HERE MEN FROM THE PLANET EARTH</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">FIRST SET FOOT UPON THE MOON</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">JULY </span>1969<span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">, A.D.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">WE CAME IN PEACE FOR ALL MANKIN</span>D.</div><div class="">Then returned to continue the war.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Alex Dimitrov</div></div></body></html>