mars needs war!

\"mars needs war!\"
the leader of the UN-
free world said to
the world today.

an aidperson
quickly corrected him,
saying mars needed women,
not war, with a weak,
unsure attempt at
a smile.

nonsense the lead-
er said, the ladd-
er of jacobs land-
ed.

editor's notes,
the morning news
and coffee and
the weird brain-
waves of a poet
translating our
time, our era,
the beginning of
the information
age or the tail
end of it - mars
needs regime change
the little green men
can work for free here
on good old planet earth.
gotta mine those carbon
crystals from sister
mars - now politic-
ally correct, un-
like the French.

meanwhile the widows
and the children are
hungry and abused, a
-lone w/out recourse
to a loan, an escape
is very unlikely for
them to attempt to
boldly reach the
stars. mars
needs poets.