SPACE LACE

Space Lace

We watch the televised reconstruction
Of the space shuttle 'Ecstasy'
Streamlined by an all female crew
Revisionized exploration
Tweaked by the hemlines of a Venus persuasion
Working with galvanized gauntlets
Coloured as brilliantly as the Nebula
Stretched across their retro grade hull.

Thirteen long-legged voguettes
Invested, with fluorescent chip sets
And Quick-Time neural degrees in Bio E
Captivating a nation
In HD reality.

They charge strapless ions, these icons
Into a designer configuration that fit
A perfectly fashioned orbit
And defy the gravitational pull of a generation
Of men who thought
They owned space.

These foreign chiquitas, borrowed from galaxian
Seaports, accustomed to consorting alone
Were the new age heroines
Pressed in cashmere outer casings
Spacebots, originally dubbed
The Renaissance Cosmonaughts.