MARTIAN BOULDERS
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
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Sad because my astropoems
were not interesting to Earthlings,
I moved to the Red Planet.
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Here I often collect boulders
from the Utopia Planitia impact basin
and visit its satellites
(where I am much easier
than on my former planet)
collecting other boulders
from the Stickney crater
on Phobos
and from the Swift and Voltaire craters
on Deimos..
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Sometimes I bring them to Earth
and notice that such boulders
are more interesting to people
than my astropoems.
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And then those boulders
become for me
superior Martian astropoems.
#poetry