Mobius Generation

“Once Upon a World”

Mobius Generation

Watching classroom TV,
a grammar school child,
I could not understand
the teacher's tears:
I was too young
to know where she'd been-
born at the turn of her century.
But, watching,
I felt older than she was,
in faith, acceptance,
and science dreams,
too old
for her to see, to know
that I understood
how Alan Shephard
made the first manned U.S. space flight.