No Space Race Till We Fix What We Broke

Is it so crazy

That I don’t want to leave Home

To see Outer Space?

After all what’s next?

We begin mining the Moon?

We only have one

Woe to Industry

Progress that killed the Planet

In five-hundred years

Precious metals gone

So what is the Gold Standard?

Just what does it mean?

Hot toxic Oceans

And chemical groundwater

And acid rain

Is it so insane

To want to stay home instead

Of watching Earth burn?

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@bykaileyann

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