The Planet's Tale: Cantos XVII-XXI

Narrative Verse

Electra Movie Camera image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA

The Planet’s Tale: Cantos XVII-XXI

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

XVII

“A charade this all has been,”
Sneered his saviour, still unseen,
“Since the very day when first
Here we landed, all athirst
For great riches, and to learn
What facts we could here discern.
Knew we soon some clever plot
Had its snares around us got;
Th…