GALCIT 53 from Radical Moon by Bornwithhair

GALCIT 53

Rocket research condoned but not funded
Suicide Squad meeting in the dry desert
Designing castable composite propellant

A bevy of misfits, from the horn of the Beast
To the son of heaven and all in between
Making fast the fiery speed at war’s pace

They rose to build hell in the desert
And Jack himself made the Star Ruby
And banished with fire and predicated scarlet

The success of GALCIT 53 on film
The experiment true science led by intuition
But an industry to be born beyond the myth

But Thelemic sorcery and fulminate of mercury
Unimaginable paroxysm of death rips Parsons apart
A mistake, a killing, or a curse

Rocket research continues after the war
But communist sympathies lead to un-American
Accusations against survivors of the Suicide Squad

McCarthy and the Witch Hunt hunters hunting
“Let the scientists know they can leave America
Explore space for all we care, as we port in the V2 crew...”

Frank Malina deports and paints outer space from France
A fortune teller draws a map for Martin Summerfield
Beyond orbit, beyond even Princeton, New Jersey

The son of heaven himself exiled
Returns home after intellectual banishment
Qian Xuesen fathers the Chinese missile

Master mind Von Kármán original visionary
Does not escape the wrath of ignorance
But perseveres to advocate, nonetheless

And Edward Forman walking the shadow
Of his 60th year is, just as promised,
Haunted by the fire of a handsome ghost

• Arthouse Metal
• Avant-garde Metal
• Blackened Death Rock
• Metal
• lo-fi
• United States