It is modern. Couldn’t you have brought

me into the world three

days later? You

 

could have (the cat is laughing)

pushed me back in again.

It is modern. Who do you prefer?

 

The banks close as the banks close.

One of me, having been forced out, could

be watched over with no undue

 

taxing of beneficent – Throw it off.

The rattle again of splintered waste

in orbit; shards, at speed, incredibly cold.

 

 

 

 

September 30, 1973, approaching Dudinka, altitude 3500 m. Time of incident, 20:22.