The Tenth Planet
by Ryki Zuckerman
we spin on our axis every day
oblivious to the pending shift,
barely aware
that pluto may be just a transneptunian object
in the retinue of celestial objects
out there among
the interplanetary dust,
xena has been spotted,
greater in size
and mass than puny pluto
though we think earth
the center of the universe,
despite newton and the others,
that heliospheric current sheet,
the largest structure
in the solar system,
resembles nothing more than
a wide mobius strip;and our solar system
is merely a sizable speck
nestled in a far quadrant
of the spirals
of the milky way galaxy
so when our lives
twist in upon themselves,
and our egos besot us with
the importance of our own orbit,
think of pluto,
about to fall
from the litany of the
hallowed hierarchy,
about to lose its planetness
and become only
a kuiper belt object.
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