Seems that the main thing I think about lately is how to protect a satellite in orbit high above the earth from the threat of micrometeroids and orbital debris. Yet, that has little to do with my life as a human being, until I realized how closely they are related.
Orbital Debris and Feelings
Debris is generated by the high velocity impact
of an orbiting satellite with a rogue, uncatalogued
object traveling at 15 kilometers per second.
The satellite is obliterated into millions of shards,
tools, paint chips and spent rocket boosters which,
in turn, orbit around the earth, some at higher altitude,
some lower, with velocities described by a Gebbard diagram.
The unidentified debris of my feelings is generated
by an unexpected high velocity, high impact
collision between my concealed feelings
and his unspoken ones. The shards of this
collision, in turn, orbit around and into our
relationship, until they are further identified
and carefully de-orbited in a fiery descent
back to earth.
Debris is generated by the high velocity impact
of an orbiting satellite with a rogue, uncatalogued
object traveling at 15 kilometers per second.
The satellite is obliterated into millions of shards,
tools, paint chips and spent rocket boosters which,
in turn, orbit around the earth, some at higher altitude,
some lower, with velocities described by a Gebbard diagram.
The unidentified debris of my feelings is generated
by an unexpected high velocity, high impact
collision between my concealed feelings
and his unspoken ones. The shards of this
collision, in turn, orbit around and into our
relationship, until they are further identified
and carefully de-orbited in a fiery descent
back to earth.
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