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Martian Invasion
Saganopolis admitted it first.
they always came in the night
the invaders, hiding paper-thin bodies
in cracks too tiny to see
ugly welts, strange rashes
soon spread across
the colonized face of Mars
skillfully pitting neighbor against neighbor
as they’d done since we scrambled out of the caves
Phobos said they had come from Deimos
while Deimos pointed at Phobos
‘It Came From Earth!’
they finally shouted
as bedbugs at last
had come to Mars
David Dickinson is an astronomy book author, freelance science writer, frequent contributor to Sky and Telescope and Universe Today, retired U.S. Air Force vet, and long-time amateur astronomer. His short fiction and poetry have been published on The Drabblecast and in Star*Line.
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