The Planet's Tale: Cantos XXVII-XXXI

Narrative Verse

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The Planet’s Tale: Cantos XXVII-XXXI

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

XXVII

In a howling fit of rage,
That would startle any age,
The captain his mic turned off,
But not before it had coughed
With the order to unlid
Missiles in the spaceship hid.
High in orbit out they popped,
And then shrieking downward dropped:
Arcs of fi…