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"The first of us to settle down,
 Could not believe their eyes;
 This place so big and so beautiful,
 Had mountains in her skies.
 Our troubled people were locked in war.
 We could not understand it.
 We hurried through and shut the door,
 So they could never find our, stone...

"Flying stone.
 Leave the miseries beneath us;
 Alone, on our own
 only brotherhood between us.
 We know only our lowly ways,
 So let the dragons teach us
 To roam, like the stones,
 Drifting up above our eyes."

  -- from "Flying Stone" (1989) by Ariel Cinii (Abby), who was recently found dead in her apartment [I don't have more details yet ... I had so many things I wanted to talk to her about the next time I saw her, which I thought was going to be a few months from now]

"I hope the parts we're carrying don't get too obsolete.
 The word's out on the telecoms. They're talking 'bout our feat.
 Them warp-drive cruisers pass us
 at eight times the speed of light.
 We've gone too far to get back home.
 Our home star's out of sight.

   "We'll keep on...
    Droozlin' through the cosmos.
    Droozlin', sipping slowly on our beers.
    We'll keep on droozlin' through the cosmos...
    And we're gonna reach L- WHATSIS-FACE
    if it takes a hundred years."

  -- from "Droozling Through the Cosmos" (1979) by Ariel Cinii