Honorable mention Poetry, Billie Jean Scott

ONE GIANT STEP

I caught the comic pages

The Esso driver tossed out to me

While walking on my way to school.

I traveled to the moon with Flash Gordon;

And I also learned to read.

It’s a waste of time, some said,

To read that imaginary trash;

But I was happily launched in outer space,

Traveling fast, with Dale and Flash.

I stood on a Florida coastline

With newspapers in my hand,

Waving, as Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins,

Blasted off for a new frontier-land

To take the first step for all mankind,

Which I had taken in thirty-nine

While walking on my way to school.

Billie Jean Scott