N.E.O.

<br>N.E.O.<br>Near Earth Object.<br>A solid body whose orbit lies within the orbit of Mars.<br>Moons Asteroids. Meteorites.<br>And human debris.<br>You can see a meteorite almost any night.<br>Go out to the desert<br>You might find a piece.<br>They are pieces of stars,<br>Same as you and me<br>They have travelled through space for thousands of years.<br><br>Perhaps you will get lucky<br>but you will never find a piece of Soyuz<br>or Sputnik or Apollo 9<br>They are still out there<br>They are very faint<br>And the pollution in earths atmosphere<br>washes out their pale light<br><br>Floating without air, without light<br>or else - charred on the re-entry<br>They are still out there floating<br>within the orbit of Mars.<br><br>Look at it this way:<br>a river of space, a ribbon of time<br>like a burial by a beaurocrat<br>undercover of a cold war risk.<br>a cloud of dust-a cloud of rubble<br>spinning in space on the heels of the Hubble<br>a parallel, or a temporal rip<br>in the belly of the Cosmos<br>somewhere in a hanger<br>a fossilized finger<br>stored by the government, hidden from the press<br>some young top gun s first solo<br>turned out to be a N.E.O.