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Poem and illustration: “Tilt”

Tilt

Do you run like Mercury? /

Straight arrow to the end? /

Is you love like Venus? /

Head over heals to begin? /

Are you a quarter way over, /

Mars tilted into battle? /

Or are you Uranus, /

Cockeyed like a rattle? /

Jupiter tilts only slightly /

As the mighty often do. /

Saturn, Neptune, and Ol’ Earth /

Bend as if they’ve had a few, /

Hanging out with Mars, /

Swapping stories, one or two. /

All the planets have stories /

And each an angle of repose. /

That includes Pluto, to whom /

Some have turned up their collective nose.

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A cup of Mercury

I swallowed from the cup of Mercury

to cover my absurdity.

The ambrosia of Venus

was cloudy in toxic meanness.

I raised a toast to ol’ Earth

the land of mirth and birth.

I’d thought I’d reached the stars

but was only a sip of Mars.

“Here’s mud in your eye,”

I said to Jupiter by and by.

I left a ring around Saturn —

just following an old pattern.

I drank from Uranus

though you thought me an ignoramus.

Things got kind of blurry

drinking from Neptune in such a hurry.

I got blotto on Pluto —

as a planet I couldn’t let go.

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Saturn Photos: Latest Images from NASA’s Cassini Orbiter | Space.com

Saturn Photos: Latest Images from NASA's Cassini Orbiter | Space.com.

As the year closes, a look at another place in our little corner of the galaxy.

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