Ready for launch - a poem for Valentina Tereshkova #2

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Ready for launch

The suit is working well.

The inflow stream is working well.

I’m ready for launch.

I feel excellent.

Everything is normal.

I’m not a delicate lady.

Everything is normal on board.

I’m ready for launch.

I’m taking up the initial position.

Feeling excellent.

Valentina Tereskova preparing for launch.
Image credit: @Sputnik

This is a poem made by selecting and rearranging words from a segment of conversation in the transcript of Valentina Tereshkova's epic orbit of the Earth in 1963. So in a way we are joint authors of this work. Note also the influence of Gertrude Stein.