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Invisible Inc.

I’m one of those planets you can’t see.
Just glimpse around, you won’t spot me.
Above, below, be soon, be late,
There’s nothing there quite half so great
As invisible energy, transparent mass:
I love it like your laughing gas.

SETI people know enough:
“E-T minds don’t have the stuff
To ring Sol sans shadow.” That’s just guff.
I’m right betwixt you. It must be tough
For groundlings who can’t stand the heat
That comes from knowing they’ve been beat.
We’re all around, in several sizes.
I’m just the planet who advertises.

Last edited by Allen Tice; 04-23-2022 at 10:37 AM. Reason: It’s an upside down almost tetra-sonnet.
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