Alkmaar in Space, Jeremy Keighley
5,4,3,2,1,
Zero !
With a wrenching, tearing boom
Alkmaar takes off.
Train tracks dangle over the edge
cut off forever,
from Heiloo and Heerhugowaard,
blasted off into space.
Above us is a huge Perspex dome
to keep the air in
and frustrate the bouncing seagulls.
Alkmaar orbits
a little faster than the old moon.
There is a beautiful view of the stars
and the earth,
day trips to the asteroids
and moon rocks on sale at Kaasmarkt.
There is a weekly rocket to AZ.
The stadium now cut off
beside an Alkmaar-sized hole
at the top of the A9.
After 400 years
Alkmaar is finally
Ontzet.
(Jeremy Keighley deed ook mee aan Alkmaar Anders 2007 en vervolgens aan alle poëzieactiviteiten in Atelier9en40)