Tales of an Astronaut’s Bald Spot

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I sing of the flailing follicles 
which flicker aboard a cosmonaut's 
skin like a candlelight,
for astronauts stew in a vibrating brew 
of eyelash escapees 
and eyebrow runaways,

That wiggle and spasm vigorously
in all directions like crazed toddlers
in the throes of a sugar rush. 

A space traveller's hair strands 
stand at attention on occasion
paralyzed by the panoramic surge of all-encompassing connection 
Earth gazing showers over virgin vision,
Their hairs also desperately grip 
threadbare roots before
weightlessness finally yanks 
their anchors out like
a tidal wave scattering 
a dandelion ball across an abyss.

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