Some rockets rumble
some rockets crackle
The biggest rockets
rumble crackle and roar
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The best pens
have a rocket
shape—
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my favourite pens
are shaped
like rockets—
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a spindle
shoots toward space
on a column ov cloud
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Russian smokeless rockets
emit a fancy
butane lighteresque exhaust
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up in smoke!
booster rocket bundles!
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the X-1
was the first rocketplane
to break the
sound barrier
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GLS computer
ground launch sequence
aims for the window
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the wait
for a rocket to launch
is almost as long
as the wait
for the rocket
to reach escape velocity
slip through the window
and make LEO
(low earth orbit)
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do these rockets
use solid
or liquid
propellant?
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rockets ignited
emanate powerful
acoustical energy waves
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discovery’s
one last reach
for the stars
thrust on a massive plume
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takes
a heck ov a lot ov energy
to get something
even the size & weight
ov a toaster
up to even a low orbit
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real reusable rockets!
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this rocket rolls
trajectory true
thru orbital windows—
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parabolic rockets
frolic
with space junk
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falcon heavy boosters
land
like thunderbirds
on a rescue mission
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requiem
for retrorockets—
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a rocket arises
from a field ov rocket
Godzilla gimbals—
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humans
are sometimes classified
as rocket components—
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is that a rocket in your
or are you a giant?
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if rockets were fish
space
would be their water—
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if birds had rockets:
scorched wings—
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our rockets
only ever launch
dinky little satellites—
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woe!
We have no rockets!
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every rocket
has a gantry—
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trust the thrust
— — rrrrockett—
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reusable rockets
the gift the keeps giving—
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100 kilometres above
mean sea level
the Karman line
“the officially recognized
edge ov space”
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many
are the rockets
handheld ones
to take out tanks or bunkers
all the way
up to
huger honking ones
that shoot for the moon—
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rocket thrust
pressures act on
combustion chamber and nozzle
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thrust – gravity – drag – lift
the four forces
governing rockets
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“I have the fireflies!”
– NASA transmission, Aurora 7
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the classic rocket shape
long and thin
with aerodynamic nose cone!
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the history ov spaceflight
is punctuated
by
exploding rockets
popping rockets
falling rockets
immovable rockets
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it’s not rocket science
but
if parabolas are your
cup ov tea
we may have
some ballistics for you—
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rocket
streaming blue plasma
arcs into space
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comprehensive research
I have watched snippets ov
“rocket”
the Beyoncé music video—
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so there’s a place
in Greece
where two orthodox churches
fire rockets at each other?
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respect the rocket
never fear—
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holy Saturday – for the rockets!
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vrontados, Greece
two parishes
“go to war” with rockets
to celebrate
christ’s resurrection
(and something about
holding off an Ottoman attack)
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rockets are romantic!
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1958
vanguards—
discoverys—
atlases—
they all blew up
on the Launchpad
the americans
had some rocket issues—
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