37 YEARS

I'm showing

my nephew grainy images

of Voyager's flyby of Uranus

back in 1986,

and remember

my own disappointment of

the few short articles in newspapers,

the few short clips in the TV news,

the public indifference,

even then,

in a more civilized age,

and the long flow of years,

and all the deaths,

all that was to be and wasn't,

and yet since

Uranus hasn't moved

a half of its orbit

around the Sun.

01.01.2023

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