Badge please. This is it, I’m really here. The Texas sun flashes bright against the steel Of a something so big my mind cannot believe its real More mountain than machine, it rises up before me Beneath the dome of just one engine I am so small, a fleck His pace is brisk I’m almost tripping to keep up Tattooed welders wave hello then back to melting stuff I can’t believe I’m really here, that this is happening. Giant machines, impossible dreams, but here they are. Touch them. Fifteen scientists and I’m the rat Makes for very busy days Minutes seem like hours but weeks are gone in seconds flat Badge please. I couldn’t wait to finish, but now it doesn’t seem enough. Now its up to me. Am I really ready?
