Hi Frank,
Interesting poem, this!
(Ha, I remember David Bowie's Star Man, and - from many more decades ago - a
TV programme with the phrase "Flying Doctor calling Base... Flying Doctor
calling Base... But, like with the jelly I mentioned in the last post - and
which I could well have eaten watching the programme - I digress!!!).
The second word of the poem intrigues me... "He's LIKE a" - it adds to its
sadness.
Bob
>From: Frank Faust <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: sub - a contact for astro-man
>Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 21:28:36 +1000
>
>a contact for astro-man
>
>he's like an astro-man
>at the wireless
>sending messages into the sky
>waiting for a contact
>from far away
>in places he has never been
>but believes in
>with a fervour
>like religion
>a kind of mania
>that drives him every night
>even when the sounds
>start out with the oooo-eeee-oooo
>that hints there'll be nothing out there this time
>he keeps turning dials
>and sending
>heart-felt messages
>
>once he thought he had a contact
>with a shooting star
>but it passed right through his signal range
>so quickly
>that now he wonders
>and this time he's hoping
>for a pulsar
>that might hear him
>and send a signal back
>to say hello in static
>or thrum a rhythmic beat
>that will let him know for sure
>he is not alone
>in the universe
>
>an astro-man
>a pedant if you start him up
>because he still believes
>there'll be a signal out there one day
>tuned in to his frequency
>
>if he only searches hard enough
>and patiently
>there'll be a contact
>from way out in the great nowhere
>
>someone will hear him
>
>~
>
>Want poetry? Try my Tales of Faust web page at http://tales-of-faust.com/ .
>Enjoy.
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