The Red Roadster
“Elon Musk fully intends to put a red sports car made by a company that he
runs into an enormous rocket ship made by another company that he runs
and fire both into Mars orbit.”
—IndustryWeek
(with apologies to William Carlos Williams)
so much depends
upon
a red, wheeled
Roadster
blazed across
Twitter
beside the blue
planet
Claudia Gary‘s latest chapbook is Genetic Revisionism. She is also author of Humor Me (David Robert Books, 2006) and chapbooks including Bikini Buyer’s Remorse, Let’s Get Out of Here, and Epicurigrams, all available from the author. Also a composer and health journalist, she lives near Washington D.C. and teaches workshops at The Writer’s Center (writer.org) on villanelle, sonnet, meter, poetry vs. trauma, and the science of poetry. See pw.org/content/claudia_gary; follow @claudiagary.