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Letter to Yuri
Letter to Yuri
(Listening to the world’s first manned spaceflight on a crystal radio set. 12th April 1961.)
From the wire in the garden
Your news came to came to me via the B.B.C. -
The Home Service they had called it -
But not for you
As you travelled further away from us than
anyone had ever done -
Spinning in your little egg
in the monstrous foot-pads of Laika t...
Monday 12th April 2021 1:20 pm
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