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Dueling Princes

Scott Heigel

To me,
You will always be more than
Mickey Mouseās dog or
The king of the underworld –
You are my rebel planet,
The one who always refused
To follow behind the others,
Making your own off-kilter elliptical way
Through the black veldt of space,
My dual dueling princes
Pluto and Charon.
Not hot like sexy Mercury,
Not venerable as Venus,
Not home like Terra Firma,
Nor the lustful machismo of Mars,
Nor great and large like Jupiter,
Nor bejeweled like ringed Saturn
Nor the butt (ha ha) of every
Juvenile joke like poor Uranus,
Just an anomaly past Neptune
Nor are you now even a
Planet any more by the whim
Of these learned astronomers –
Just a lone misfit
Adrift amidst our cosmology,
Unknowable and now
Unwanted.
Fear not,
For you will never be alone –
Together we shall wander,
And be obscure,
And keep our secrets.

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