The Space Age A Sonnet

A rocket takes off from from Dillon's Run Base and launches toward the x-ray binary star system called CHANDRA. The crew is evenly divided between Engineers, who manage the space travel technology, plot the course unerringly, and monitor hundreds of cybernetic siblings, and we poets and ambassadors, whose mission begins when the engineers' is finished. They return but we remain as guests of the Autarch of the watery metropolis of Mercier 976 for the whole of our mortality. Such is our choice to serve two masters, Earthly and Chandran, and blend our mammalian culture with their reptilian culture, to make common cause with all creatures for the expansion of civilization across the Universe and the triumph of the Space Age.