The Moon is floating up high
taking a bite of a dark sky
A pretty big celestial kite
that comes out at night
People have gone to the Moon
Pretty soon they will go to Mars
Either one is pretty cold
Either one is pretty far
The moon we can clearly see
it is round and pale and bright
it makes tides on rivers and seas
people pray and dogs howl
There is no air on the moon
but there is some human poop
of all the poop we know of
this is the most far flung
The moon is mooning us
with blatant defiance
to sabotage our dreams
of mooner science
We can already buy land on the moon
go up there and drill a hole
have some fun bouncing on it
take a break then bounce some more
Other planets have moons
but this is a special one
not the biggest of them all
but the one closest to us
This, in short, is all that we know
of this big pale space round rock
we might endeavor to know more
and go back, once the earth is gone.
