A Song Act

Impulse to see
Zero where we
impulsed to hike
some scuba gear
and ski boat alike
as the upside
of irrational fears

Dive! Dive, ye men!
Don't you have a yen?
Dive! Dive again...
Give it all you can!

Trillion is spent
to make contact
and prove that we
as a people
are totally
unprepared to act
So burly ones:

Dive! Dive, ye men!
Don't you have a yen?
Dive! Dive again...
Give it all you can!

Contact is our faith;
a self-reinforced
Illusion-ary tact
otherwise journey
that never took place,
we are all alone
as a proto race.

Dive! Dive, ye men!
Don't you have a yen?
Dive! Dive again...
Give it all you can!

First contact might prove
we are not ultra-individualists
some might need sent
corrective surgery
betraying a vindictive
with temperaments surly.
C'mon altogether now, yowl:

Dive! Dive, ye men!
Make new friends...
Dive! Dive again...
maybe to ascend!

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