Poems of the Week

Astro or Naut

by Alex Steelsmith

“Will Jeff Bezos be an astronaut when he travels into space…?
It’s complicated, because experts say there’s still a debate about where space begins.”

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“More than 70,000 people have signed petitions to stop Jeff Bezos from returning to Earth
after his trip to space…”
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Quibbledy squabbledy,
Bezos the billionaire
isn’t an astronaut?
Surely he’ll earn

incontrovertible
rights to the term if he
goes into orbit and
doesn’t return.