Hard to Starboard

from Dark Matter & Love Stories by GreyMarket

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October 4th, 1957
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik
The world's first man-made satellite
This small metal ball is met with a mixture of fear and wonder
It throws fuel on a cold war fire
And ignites a space race
to last the better part of 18 years
Its successor, Sputnik II, carries a dog named Leika
The first casualty in space

April 12th, 1961
Yuri Gegarin, a Soviet cosmonaut
Becomes the first man to leave this world and return alive
His luck does not return with him
He is killed in a plane crash
He is 34

July 4th, 1932
Marie Curie, pioneering mind in the field of radioactivity
Succumbs to her own life's work
She is known to carry test tubes of radioactive isotopes
And once remarked
That in the dark
They were possessed of a pretty
Green-blue light

June 8th, 1954
Alan Turing, founder of computer science
Logician, mathematician, and war-time codebreaker
Is found dead of self-administered cyanide poisoning
Barely worse than the chemical castration
Administered as punishment for gross indecency
Homosexuality was a crime

1942
Isaac Asimov's book, runaround
Introduces the three laws of robotics
These three laws create an understanding
Between robot... and man
They precede centuries of struggle
To overcome one last prejudice

April 3rd, 2247
I am born
Thank you

To the first of my kind
To the father of my purpose
To the maker of my mind
Donor of my blood
Seed of my being

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from Dark Matter & Love Stories, released February 10, 2012

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