Space Walking Repairmen?

I made some notes over a
Guardian article

Like a man making lists
for election campaigns

Twenty - ten; Space Odysseys
The Hubble Telescope

It was a bank holiday
rain then sun then rain then

Tim Walker, talking about
"Space Walking Repairmen"

Reminds me there are few things
which can never be fixed

In my notes I determined
to write about: Hans Blix;

The Child Support Agency;
A Hedgehog On a Spike;

Death (of Alan Sillitoe);
"Fuck off and get dive-bombed";

Organised trades and labour
in America - striking

For an eight hour working day
' hundred and twenty four

years ago to this moment;
winning: as my list ends,

My manifesto begins:
Weapons; Mass destruction;

Childhood; un-explained cruelty;
Death; sticking together.

The long and short of it all?
Back boys, against the wall

In Sillitoe's plain english,
Alan might have said:

"You didn't know me living,
but fucking love me dead".