INGENUITY (or, Life on Mars)

They flung a thingamajig

300 million miles

across open space

and hit a rock

zipping along at 

14 miles per second.

Bullseye!

Those guys must be

pretty smart.

Copter goes up.

Copter goes down.

People cheered.

Meanwhile,

I saw a man 

dumpster-diving

for potato skins,

and a woman

begging quarters

with her two

doe-eyed boys.

And I'll be darned if 

there wasn't 

a rocket scientist 

in sight.