SPACE LITTER
(This morning on PBS I heard that the Kepler telescope has recorded pictures of billions of earth-like planets)
The Kepler telescope reveals
To our horizon-seeking eyes
A multitude of habitable earths.
So we outcasts from Eden
May leave behind our trashed
And plundered planet
Without a backward glance,
Set out for new frontiers
As spaceship pioneers
Ready to sow invasive seeds
Across an expanding universe,
Unless we find pollution worse
Than ours preceded us:
A trail of uninhabitable husks.
November 2013
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