for Andy Darlington
‘I’ve met three of the twelve men who walked on the moon.
They had one important thing in common when I looked
into their eyes: they were all bonkers.’
– Rich Cohen, ‘How Stanley Kubrick Staged the Moon Landing’
Were you there?
At what point did
the fabrication begin?
There was a press reception
where one of the reporters
pointed out various inaccuracies.
Collateral damage was tracked around the world.
I had a dialogue with a man
high up in the overhead tangles:
maximum stretch, disintegrated will.
Was he real? Are you real? Am I real?
Or are we parts of each other’s fantasy,
stumbling through a NASA replication?
No alien nonsense.
We live in an Einsteinian Relativistic world.
I fill my Tupperware container multiple times,
reach ever higher, watch everything happen.
Sometimes we must suffer.
Truth is fiction.
Truth is malleable.
Truth is open to negotiation.
Lost in winding lanes where rumours grow.
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Rupert M Loydell
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