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Local Star
38. 21 July 2021
Main sequence local star.
Colour yellow, it’s a G.
When it dies, it won’t go as far
Into the black night of gravity
As a bigger star.
One day it will be a white dwarf.
Once it’s run out of hydrogren
And started burning helium.
It will destroy the Earth, Venus and Mercury too.
But for now it’s pottering along
Burning hydrogen nicely,
Giving off occasional burps and farts
Of solar flares, mostly behaving itself.
*
I think of our nice yellow local star
Sitting at the head of the Council of the Gods,
Shining yellow and mysterious.
The Earth/Moon speaks first:
“Help me, oh gods,” they say,
“To spawn into space. Help me
As you’ve helped before.”
*
Mars barks with laughter.
“I’m ready,” he says, “Where are they?”
Poisonous Venus smiles: “Playing as always,
