Will Come as No Surprise

It will come as no surprise
the wandering through space
and visits to planets, setting flags
of ownership, such a human thing
and we've been warming up
for the journey, over ready now
Impatience will be the crystal word

Moments ago we killed our food
dragged it home and huddled
for warmth against the fires
of our close held bodies
Moments ago we filled the need
with careful baskets woven
In long afternoons of conversation

I knew you by your voice and touch
moments ago
when we spoke and lay close
That voice is closer, yet further now
bounced by satellite to me
mixed among the textures
of my walkman spinning Dylan

I must get hooked to the Internet
to drive us faster, opening space
from those waking moments
when the smell of your body
was all a man could want
and your sleep filled eyes knew me
in those times of weaving baskets

Instantly, we need it all right now
The music, the image, CNN
that brings us close to Michael Jackson
freeze frames Jordan
takes you and me to miracles
A pale thing by comparison, my small miracle
when I killed your food and knew your smell

The expected day of weightlessness will come
quickly, yet not soon enough for the need
to do it all and see it all and feel it all
away from that awful warmth
of my hand on your sleeping belly
When memory crackles lifelessly across space
every thirst quenched by electrons

It will come as no surprise