Billionaires in space

Dave BontaAngry

if kings play Indian on Mars

as the world on fire says trade is great

better that they believe they shall not return

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 27 June 1668

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Angry
Topics:: fire, king, trade, mars

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In just a few lines, the poem takes a sharp look at the super-rich who dream of leaving Earth. The speaker calls them "kings" who "play Indian on Mars," a phrase that suggests dress-up, as if colonizing another planet were a game of pretending to be pioneers or settlers.

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