Space Oddity
Michael Ceraolo
The war of the worlds began with the war of the words
was back in the twenty-first century;
a convention of astronomically bureaucratic astronomers,
a less-than stellar stellar civil service commission
that took upon itself the responsibility
of promoting to and demoting from the rank of planet,
decided to demote Pluto,
and
decided to pass over for promotion three recently-discovered bodies,
bowing down to the dumbing down of that century-s devolution;
their main reason seemed to be not to further burden educators
by having them come up with a new moronic mnemonic
to remember the proposed new planets,
and
to further ease the brainstrain by removing one thing to remember
Thus,
it was no surprise
when a like-minded group of intergalactic bureaucrats
performed the same prestidigitation as regards Earth,
the answering volley in today’s never-ending war
