Mars Not for the Taking

Who owns the moon
Who wants it
Besides Gru

Someone who thinks the mineral rights
Would be glad to take
And to provide through
Taking
And so make the other Earthers pay

Who owns Mars
But that the same agendas
Work
And again the rest on Earth to pay

And
What kinds of lessons will we learn
When we are truly
There
And other places
And the ones before us
Say
Sorry
Wrong number
Phone elsewhere

And then
In a seriousness of Spaceballs
We will decide to take their
Air
So we may have it
And the progenitors
No longer

And keep on this track of
Piracy
And war
Until the cosmos
Squish us out
By the things
Always bigger than
Ourselves

And had we read
The appendix of the guide
That said
Don’t ever do this
And now panic

For
So many things were
And are given
Without
The taking

C L Couch


for Earth Day and even Easter week

all the things trademarked or copyrighted that I cite or to which I allude I do not own and make no money from (no more than Earth or the moon, Mars, Phobos, or Deimos)

Photo by NASA Hubble Space Telescope on Unsplash