Saturn - ROBYN

I’ve just picked up my red Radio Flyer

From the astro-ship tuneup shop

Its super-duper quadruple turbo chargers

Rocket boosters, aerodynamically designed wings

Are all in tip top shape for lift off

My space suit was designed by an ET couturier

I’m off to the Cosmos, you see 

Not to visit the Man in the Moon

But Saturn and its nine rings

The sixth planet from the Sun

I’ll need to navigate its main rings

Through gaps opened by moonlets

I hope to encounter Titan, its largest moon

Where I’ll pull in to a drive-in window

And order a Lemonade float “No ice please”

Won’t that be a gas!

Then I’ll steer to the moon named Phoebe

A beautiful name, hopefully beautiful to behold

She orbits in retrograde at a different angle

There will be no stopover here

For my destination is Big Boy Saturn

I’ll land on the planet in my high fashion suit

Shut down the boosters, fold up the wings

Step down from my red Radio Flyer

Look around with my X-Ray vision

And hear the 6 a.m. alarm ring into a new Earth day.

Jan.17 2014