Poems of the Week

War of the Worlds

by Dan Campion

“SpaceX’s Starman and Elon Musk’s Tesla just made their 1st Mars flyby”
Space.com

Our landforms sinking under roads and cars,
Of course we’d have a roadster prowl past Mars,
A “starman” propped up in the driver’s seat
To prospect for the next world to deplete.