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LAIKA *<\/p>\n
In a metal bullet,
\nThe best, we own,
\nFlies day after day a dead dog
\nAround our earth
\nAs a warning,
\nThat ever so could circle
\nYear after year around the sun,
\nLoaded with a dead humanity,
\nThe planet Earth,
\nThe best we have.<\/p>\n
G\u00dcNTER KUNERT<\/strong>, Germany, 1929-2019<\/p>\n Translation Germain Droogenbroodt<\/p>\n From \u201eErinnerung an einen Planeten \u2013 Reminicense of a Planet\u201c, Heyne Lyrik<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n LAIKA \/\/ In einer Kugel aus Metall,\/Dem besten, das wir besitzen,\/Fliegt Tag f\u00fcr Tag \/in toter Hund\/Um ***<\/p>\n * Laika the first animal to orbit the earth. She was selected to occupy the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LAIKA * In a metal bullet, The best, we own, Flies day after day a dead dog Around our earth As a warning, That ever so could circle Year after year around the sun, Loaded with a dead humanity, The planet Earth, The best we have. G\u00dcNTER KUNERT, Germany, 1929-2019 Translation Germain Droogenbroodt From \u201eErinnerung […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4415"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4501,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions\/4501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nunsre Erde\/Als Warnung,\/Dass so einmal kreisen k\u00f6nnte\/Jahr f\u00fcr Jahr um die Sonne,\/Beladen mit einer
\ntoten Menschheit,\/Der Planet Erde,\/Der beste, den wir besitzen<\/p>\n
\nlaunched into outer space on 3 November 1957. Little was known about the impact of spaceflight on living
\ncreatures at that time. Laika died within hours from overheating.<\/p>\n