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Y aquí te dejo un poema de Dorion Sagan
Earth (For Dad with apologies)
Here is the news from earth:
Life is not life
Science is not science
Mind is not mind
Look at it from space
Where time is out of joint
Where there is no day or night
Or rather there is day-night, night-and-day at the same time
Daylight and shadow, the blinding sun and the simultaneously
Sobering and hallucinatory reality of distant and receding stars**
Look at Earth from out there
It is not everything. It grows humble. It is half-lit, majestic.
This is the place. This is the time.
Earth is not Earth. It is blue. It grows pale and plain as you recede. It disappears.
Like the face of the beloved lost in the crowd
Was it ever there? More there than when the
Lights dim and she becomes Beauty itself—
A pale perfect shape, sweet face of her
Nude promise concealed and illuminated by the EXIT sign
Life is not life
It is written in the script of the universe
Like Coca Cola in Arabic
An interrupted promise
What in magic we call the one-ahead principle
Even the cosmonauts will tell you
The men who have set foot on the Moon
Who have gotten off the unhijacked Space Shuttle
They will tell you that when you are in orbit
Going around the Earth every 45 minutes or so
There is no day or night, no up or down
Sun rise follows sunset very quickly
The light cuts through the thin ribbon of the atmosphere
Illuminating the interior of the capsule with all the colors of the rainbow
Then, 45 minutes later, night falls
Earth becomes the place where there are no stars
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