Geosonnet 7

The Schrödinger bacteria’s Barsoom,

Where robots scan the wadi of the Styx.

There died, or never lived a microbe bloom

When déjà vu and Dejah Thoris mix,

Her hungry eyes fixed on Hadean seas,

Lowell’s  canal dream just an  aquifer.

The playa droid with X-ray vision sees;

Areocalcrete Earthings soon infer.

With carbonate and opal intergrown,

Australia’s prayer of cheap uranium,

As vengeful Ares, orbited by drone

Blends nukes and life within his cranium

  Thus Opportunity grinds sands of time

  Which mortals fancy Ceres made of lime.

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