owning Earth
(despicably)

no Earth B
but
B and C and D
and on
until we have to make the letters
prime

and ours
and never ours
not
this one
A
either

a villain tries to steal the moon
and if it does
would
have it
but would have
stolen it
against the tacit and
irrevocable
laws

planets
in a universe

stories to
show
what we do not own

c l couch


photo by NASA Hubble Space Telescope on Unsplash