Star-struck

Nobody has telescopes anymore.
Remember that camping trip to Gower where the shooting stars
looked like meteorites on fire?
We were astrologers
and dinosaurs
and we were perma-dusk South America
wearing its hair net of dust.

Hubble pissed on all that with photos of clouds
made from grated anti-matter ball gowns.
Nobody has telescopes anymore.
Turns out that martians do exist
but they are so unfathomably dull
we wish we'd never bothered.
Cup-a-soup powder has a more complicated
cellular structure than these no-trick granular martians.
Look! There's a new planet! One we hadn't noticed before!
Give a toss, give it a name and pin it to the ceiling.
Let's kick the habit of being
impressed just because something's far away.