- The summer everyone left for the moon, even those yet to be born and the dead who can't vacation here, but met us all there by the veil between worlds.

(upbeat music) "1969" by Alex Dimitrov.

I liked how it talked about this grand time where everybody was loving each other and we were going to the moon!

And this crazy time for America where we didn't know where the future was heading.

And so it was this sense of love everywhere you went.

(upbeat music) But then at the same time, there's a war going on.

And so I loved how the poem talked about us humans, are like living life and we're looking to the future, but also to the past, but we're never really living in the present.

And so I loved how that poem kind of called us out on that and it was like there's so much future ahead, but whoever lives in the present?

So I liked how it called action to living in the present and reminding yourself that we aren't immortal.

And so take life for what you have and just remember to live it to the fullest.

"1969" by Alex Dimitrov.

The summer everyone left for the moon, even those yet to be born.

And the dead who can't vacation here, but met us all there by the veil between worlds.

The number one song in America was "In the Year 2525" because who has ever lived in the present when there's so much of the future to continue without us?

How the best lover won't need to forgive you and surely take everything off your hands without having to ask, without knowing your name.

No matter the number of times you married or didn't, your favorite midnight movie, the cigarettes you couldn't give up, wanting to kiss other people you shouldn't.

And now, to forever be kissed by the Earth.

In the Earth, with the Earth.

When we all briefly left it to look back on each other from above, shocked by how bright even our pain is, running wildly beside us, like an underground river and whatever language is good for, a sign.

A message left up there that reads, here men, from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon, July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind then returned to continue the war.

(upbeat music) - [Narrator] Funded by the North Dakota Council on the Arts and by the members of Prairie Public.