Trapped in Various Spaces

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If Jupiter could smash the railway track,

It would, but, spinning far too far away,

Fails.  Asteroids space’s junk-like flak

Would kill wee Edinburgh with a stray

Collision.  Mars would bring on World War Three

With hydrogen in blasts.  Hiroshima

Could not imagine holocaust, its glee,

Obliterating wee Iwo Jima.

If Saturn could deploy its rings as saws

That swirl around, that spheroid would slice through

The earth, our wee speck planet cut like gauze.

While killing us, our sun would swell to blue.                [Bing Videos]

  Don’t worry, though.  We(e) earthlings do our best

    Annihilating under house arrest.

~ Phillip Whidden

by phillipw | Aug 22, 2024 | AS | 0 comments