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Talking to the Man in the Moon*

I.B. Rad

In 1969, during their historic lunar walk,
who’d have thought
astronauts Aldrin and Armstrong
might also have been conveying
a tribal admonition
to the man in the moon?
Months earlier, at a high desert moonscape
in the western United States,
they met an elderly native American
who was puzzled by their behavior
and, after explaining
they were training for a lunar landing,
the man disclosed he and his tribe
believed sacred spirits lived on the moon;
then asked them to pass a secret message
to those holy spirits, in his native tongue.
And so, after rehearsing the words
until they could articulate his lines verbatim,
they returned to their base
repeating them to an interpreter
who broke out laughing, chortling it meant,
‘Don’t believe a word these people are telling you.
They’ve come to steal your lands.’

* Based on an anecdote found in Yuval Noah Harari’s book, “Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind



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