Space Tourists
By Taylor Liebmann & CJ Trane
Editor’s note: Taylor and his grandson, CJ, who turns 8 this week, came up with this cosmically comical poem together. Happy birthday, CJ!
One day, out of the blue,
We really needed something different to do.
So, we decided to take a trip into space,
That’s right, and what a marvelous place.
Like tourists, were we,
Looking for unexpected places to see.
We were able to make some new friends,
Oh yes … they were friendly but bizarre aliens.
They were nice enough to invite us to their home,
So in space, for us, no more did we roam.
Wherever we’d look,
It was like a Dr. Seuss book!
New colors, new faces,
And very strange places.
Some that we met had a bright bouncy strut,
But we could not tell which was their head, or their butt.
And, their breath was appalling,
And from their noses things were falling.
From their ears, brown stuff was exploding,
Yes, from their heads it was emoting.
And their teeth were all green,
When they smiled, they looked mean.
But … our new lives we adored,
So many new things, never bored.
Every day was an upper,
Until our last …
When they ate us for supper!