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"Looking back (the cyborg runs, headless) the debris lies there, smells of gunpowder in the green-glow Looking back, tapping, For one last unfired" I no longer remember exactly how or why I wrote this. I originally intended it as a joke, or a jape, about Kaufman's work. Perhaps "the rockets go up" was also a reference Tom Lehrer's song _Wernher von Braun_? But after his death I cast around for something to write about him and found this and -- context determines interpretation.