May 15th

Earthshine is the ghost of a full moon between the points of a crescent,
And beautiful Venus fears no ghost.

There was no better backdrop to say good-bye.

Good-bye.

I'll miss you, Atlantis.

There's nothing up my sleeve

I've been using Google Sky to look for the Man on the Moon,

But I haven't been able to find Him

Until I used Google Maps.

He's in the UK.

Why are you protecting Him,

Google?

Reward for a street address

TBA

Every time the Hubble celebrates a birthday

The moon was probably formed somewhere

In the pillars of creation,

Along with all the dust in your bones and

The sun that wants to bleach them and

All the suns that want to bleach the bones of aliens

If they have bones to bleach.

At least we'll have something to talk about

Come first contact.

Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf

Moonwater isn't in the dictionary,
But there's water up there,
Burried, frozen.

H2O is H2O,

They say,

Chemicals have no allegiances.

But I know how to treat brooms,

I know what kind of water is in devil's brew.

Somewhere, out there, beneath the pale moonlight

Forgive me, Father,

For I have sinned

This is my first confession.

I have coveted my neighbor's wife.

And the girl who sits next to me in class.

And the girl who waits at the bus stops Tuesday mornings.

And the woman who taught me build with letters. 

And the girl who works in the bakery.

And the girl who comes in to buy coffee every other day with her dog.

Forgive me Father,

For I am lustful.

I pray for the man on the moon,

To come down and tell me why

The closest I will ever be to them

Is when I look towards him

At the same time they do.

Forgive me, Father,

For I am envious.

A rover of land and sea

They call me Bohemian...

... Vagaband...

...Wanderer of this rock...

... Artist ....

I will make sure their family isn't lunar

when the time comes. 

March 30th, 2010

Once every two and a half years, the moon turns blue.

But this year it's coming twice.

The second coming.

Doesn't that terrify you?

Rock it, man.

I told her that when I grew up, I wanted to be a rocket-man.

Burning up my fuse out there, alone,

(Except for my friends.)

She said, "oh, you mean an astronaut."

No.

What's so hard to understand about wanting to be half man, and half rocket?

Love like the Devil loves holy water

I knew if I waited long enough, my investment in a "The End is Near" sign would pay off.

No matter how crazy they thought I was.

The trick was keeping the bomb a secret.

Diamond Sutra 2 -- Kama

But then you told me that diamonds are pretty, always wanted one red,

However,

 how hard do you think it would be to break into the Johnson Space Center?

Maybe we can use the ring to distract the guards.

I smell an Englishman

I really want someone to build a space elevator.

Lasso an asteroid with a carbon nano-tube rope, tie it off from Earth to space,

Jack only had to climb sixty-five hundred feet to find giants and the hen that lay the golden egg.

Imagine what's a hundred thousand kilometers up?

Mae Jemison

Space girl left this planet to find life
Because there wasn't enough of it here.
"Too much surviving," she said,

"Not enough living."

Trinitrotoluene

TNT is an arrangement of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen atoms.

So is air.

Diamond Sutra

I was going to buy you a diamond ring so big that on sunny days you could raise your hand like asking a question to the heavens and they answered by spraying a rainbow out the other side of the prism.

You'd tell people that at the end there was a pot of gold and they'd believe you.





Because how else could anyone afford a diamond that big?