Time Line
by John D. Berry
Springfield, Public Library, 1956
"So if you look in this drawer,
it tells you what you can find."
"What about rockets?"
"Yes, they are in there."
"Wow!"
Wister, OK, 1957
"Mom, why is the radio going,
"Beep!, Beep!"
"It's called sputnik …"
Fort Smith, Public Library, 1957
"You might like this one,
It's called Rocket Ship Galileo."
Pawnee, 1958
"...an this one is called BOMARC …"
"How do they know where they will go?"
"We have something called UNIVAC."
"I wonder if they used that for,
Tunnel in the Sky."
Fort Smith, Public Library, 1959
"Do you have more books by Heinlein?"
"Here's Starship Troopers."
Buena Park, CA, 1960
"When you hear the siren,
duck and cover under your desks."
"Our teacher is crazy, this isn't gonna work."
volume 10(1)
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John D. Berry, all rights reserved.
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