We’re Never Going to Inhabit Mars.
Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare current-Horace
We’re never going to Mars,
So get your head out of the stars.
Get the stars out of your eyes.
Hear the cries,
Radiation, everyone dies.
Trying to leave problems behind,
And create new ones for a new kind.
Who's going to start mars’ first dietary fad?
No vegans, toxic soil, bad.
As Impossible as a GMO burger!
That's one dream you'll have to defer.
Oh, humans and their need to colonize!
We’d learn from the past if we were wise,
But we’re not, so we proceed.
Pumping trillions into an unattainable deed.
On Mars, the pressure of the atmosphere is less than one percent of the pressure of Earth’s atmosphere.
So what exactly is the one percent’s plan here?
The same people who complain of climate change,
They support an impossible dream that contributes to ozone depletion?
Strange.
I must admit The Red Planet is a beauty to behold,
But she's becoming just another thing to be sold.
If conditions hold,
Look at the night sky,
behold
Mars, The Red Planet,
We shall never inhabit.
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He does not like poetry; I write it anyway and do not tell him. It's true his face is not a poet's face. It is round and open, youthful; too apt to be compared to the sun. His nose is neat. It is impossible to imagine him smoking a cigarette, terse, full of cheekbones and tension. His warmth burns my fingertips. I am here for his fascinating body, the haphazard freckles I touch one by one; he is here for my eyes, just my eyes. A sunbeam sneaks through the curtains and pierces us both, sizzling the spices of his skin. I inhale and wrap myself in him. He kisses my eyes.
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