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Get to the Base

from Suitable For Cranking by Shecky

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The snow is swirling early, I can barely feel my feet. I’ve got about a hundred names for it, just none I can repeat. This dark and cold is getting old, I need to feel the heat. I’ve got no time to waste. I gotta get to the base. Back on earth, for what it's worth, they’re watching me with the Hubble. Crews approve my every move, but they don’t know my struggle. I missed my flight to the satellite. I should’a caught the shuttle. The atmosphere is so thin out here, I could use a double double. And ground control is on my case, saying, “Get to the base.” They got scientists compiling lists, with pages on gauges and thrusters. They claim the boosters that I’m used to can no longer cut the mustard, but in my shoes they’d all refuse to use these new cruise adjusters. And tonight the starlight’s too damn bright, I can’t see through the clusters. I better pick up the pace. I gotta get to the base. I’ve had my taste of outer space. I can trace the light years on my face. Those days in stasis, what a waste. The weightless wait in hyperspace, the daily disdain I maintain for this place, and memories of her and me that I can’t erase. I’ll spell it out in uppercase - I wish on every star in space that I could plot a vector to retrace the long trek home, back to the place where I can feel my wife’s embrace, and wipe the tear from off her face. But before they let me pack my travel case, I gotta save the human race.

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from Suitable For Cranking, released December 13, 2019
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