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Burt Ives, the legendary folk singer,
recently became the first musician in space.
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120,000 miles from Earth,
cramped into a bullet shaped capsule,
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Burt tuned into Cape Canaveral for a report.
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Televisions all over the world showed the scratchy
picture of Burt Ives looking pale and horrified.
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Someone at Houston Control cut in nervously and asked,
"Hey Burt, could you play
My Green Teenybopper?"
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Millions of people watched him hopefully
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as he struggled for his guitar under the emergency oxygen supply.
writing & drawings: allen frost in 1994 for egyptian books
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