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In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope.

This poem, In the Eyes of Laura Mars, is a poem about a girl you've always been infatuated with, and the qualities she beholds. All in beauty, elegance, and poise. The woman you would want to partner with, or would want to marry.

This Poem was inspired by the film 'The Martian' released in 2015. Matt Damon was the single character actor that held center stage, in beautiful isolation (except for, in the film of certain death) As being isolated on the Red Planet is Peaceful & Tranquil, but lethal.