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HITCHERS
hey ya'll.Won't be submitting poem today so as to improve time slot,so I thought I'd air a pet peeve :
Do you not remember when
to the moon we sent brave men?
prosperity which then came hence
was not a mere coincidence
The work which went into our moon shot
the increase in knowledge that it wrought
has led to much we have today
pure research is what has led the way
The screen on which you read this word
originated with a spacestruck nerd
the dish that brings your favorite show
another space research outgrow
Alas, it seems we now retreat
no matter how wise minds entreat
the money has been pissed away
to hold the banks' failure at bay
Come fall if we should choose to ride
to space we'll swallow proir pride
and pay a fare to get a lift
shortsightedness leaves me real miffed
Do you not remember when
to the moon we sent brave men?
prosperity which then came hence
was not a mere coincidence
The work which went into our moon shot
the increase in knowledge that it wrought
has led to much we have today
pure research is what has led the way
The screen on which you read this word
originated with a spacestruck nerd
the dish that brings your favorite show
another space research outgrow
Alas, it seems we now retreat
no matter how wise minds entreat
the money has been pissed away
to hold the banks' failure at bay
Come fall if we should choose to ride
to space we'll swallow proir pride
and pay a fare to get a lift
shortsightedness leaves me real miffed