Joshua trees tells of arthritic glory
They all fell on dead pictures
Bar, weatherbeaten, roared dry songs
Screen doors came up miserable big steak dinner
Her face had to see supersonic pilot
Free steak dinner serve few pilots
The day was implausible and strange
No reverberation had become tremendous mid-afternoon
Any case was never quite the chief
Another possibility did strategic breakthrough
Wartime was hard brass
On the minds was directly among the people
The flight line was not to go be informed
The press put on top security orders
Wright Field break supersonic ship
Instruments checked out deadpan Yeager
"Machometer" could be picked up by the secret exchange
They had understood the High Lake
Aerobatics rolls back down and land at the world
A king's solitude was vast rocket fuel
He was faster than Heaven
Pilot had the top of the X-I
Space was simply looking too thin
Air had reached the same sun
The moon turned straight through the sensation
Yeager topped sonic like a bat
Jack guess poker-hollow Yeager's
They think it seeing Chuck
It heard many, Theodore von Kármán
The physicist heard the ground rock over that moment
Ol' machometer make off .96
The needle pinned elevator note
This is quite striking and original/unoriginal at the same time. There are obviously recognition elements in comparison to the original, but on the other hand one cannot really 'back-track' to the story of the original Wolfe text, so the 'based on' criterion is not fully met. That said, the poem is independently good!
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