Apollo 2 cost more than Apollo 1 Apollo 1 cost enough.
Apollo 3 cost more than Apollo 2 Apollo 2 cost more than Apollo 1 Apollo 1 cost enough.
Apollo 4 cost more than Apollo 3 Apollo 3 cost more than Apollo 2 Apollo 2 cost more than Apollo 1 Apollo 1 cost enough.
Apollo 8 cost a bomb, but they did not mind because the astronauts were protestants and read the Bible from the moon, amazing and delighting all christians, and when they arrived Pope Paul VI gave them a blessing.
Apollo 9 cost more than all of them put together including Apollo 1 which cost enough.
The great grandparents of the Acahualinca people were less hungry than the grandparents.
The great grandparents died of hunger.
The grandparents of the Acahualinca people were less hungry than the parents.
The grandparents died of hunger.
The parents of the Acahualinca people were less hungry than that people's children.
The parents died of hunger.
The Acahualinca people are less hungry than that people's children.
The children of the Acahualinca people are not born for hunger, and they are hungry to be born, in order to die of hunger.
Blessed are the poor because theirs shall be the moon.
On 20th July 1969 US astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin trod on the moon, leaving their footprints in the lunar dust. Huellas de Acahualinca is a very poor district of Managua, where the footprints of the ancient Indian Acahualinca people are preserved in volcanic rock.
When poet Leonel Rugama was studying to be a Catholic priest in Managua, the seminarians used to go for walks there. Leonel left the seminary when he decided there was ‘no alternative but the struggle’. He joined the Sandinistas (FSLN) fighting to overthrow the brutal, US-backed dictator Somoza, and died in a battle with the dictator’s National Guard in Managua on 15th January 1970. The poem is in Poets of the Nicaraguan Revolution (ed. and trans. Dinah Livingstone, Katabasis, 1992).
Reprinted from Poets of the Nicaraguan Revolution (ed. and trans. Dinah Livingstone, Katabasis, 1992)