Space Age
Klannex Northmead

I am a child of the space age
I was three years old when man walked on the moon
I watched Supermarionation recreations of Heroes
like Captain Scarlet and Troy Tempest
save the planet every week
I remember asking can I watch Space 1999 dad and he said he supposed I would probably be in bed by then
but I am a child of the Space Age

I watched them cut the gold record for Voyager
I watched them say sending Bach would be too much
and would seem like bragging
I watched Television introduce us to mobile phones and
electric cars
I watched human inventions make it to Mars
not one time not two but three times because
I am a child of the Space Age

I was born in the time of the Internet and Alexa
and Siri and Google-
in the time of information,
in the time of the cloud where I learn
I was born in the last second of the last minute
of the last hour of a twenty four hour clock
that shows the time span of all of life on Earth because
I am a child of the Space Age and

I watch as NASA hunts for life on alien worlds even as governments here make life extinct as they reach from in the cradle that must burn itself to ashes to grow.
I watch an ever more delegated automated world controlled by reciprocating shrinking fields of adaptation and
I watch them see power goes to the powerful and disenfranchisement goes to the weak not as a purely ideological and spiritual identification but as an unrepresentative and arbitrary branch of politics called the vote

I see big buttons with broad outcomes on banners saying vote for me me me me but
I am a child of the Space Age
and we say the vote should represent the difference not the same.
the vote should be for Security not Pain we should vote for the stars not the scorched Earth practices of Politics and the poverty it brings because
we are children of the Space Age and our time begins.