NaPoWriMo ’15, #20: The Hazards of Being Earth

I’ve been called upon by a team on which I worked to represent a proposal to my department in a “Space Swifty” series of presentations. The subject matter is defined, but the details and method were wide open. This being the month it is, I decided to do mine in verse. In particular, limericks. The presentation has 11 of them with a cute (say I) slide show, but I can only release a small bit outside the work audience. After seeing the one, you’ll probably all be grateful.

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The planet we live on spins ’round
the star to which we are bound
sometimes it gets shocked
and occasionally pocked
by large space rocks hitting the ground.

Penny for your thoughts?