The O-rings of the Solid Rocket Boosters were not designed to erode.

Methought I saw my late espoused saint / Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave,

We may not be able to do this alone. Maybe it’s time to call in some of our markers.

[…] here where I must cope with a world only as cruel / as the people, themselves cruelly exploited / in this cardboard-boxy housing many would give / an eye-tooth for […]