BONUS SONNET: In Which I Chime In My Support For Keeping The Fremont Peak Observatory Open

If education is a public good,

As we so like to claim, then how can we

Allow this kind of thing to happen? Would

The savings made outweigh the loss we'd see?

The Fremont Peak Observatory has

A mission to allow the public's eye

To look out far beyond our planet, as

We should if we are to survive. That sky

Above us e'er should lure us to surpass

Our paltry buildings, cities, monuments

And think about our destiny. The glass

There opens minds. Yet I fear common sense

Says budget cuts will take it. So I dare

All those who love it to cough up a share.

BONUS SONNET: On The Evil Nasa Conspiracy

In space, it's true, no one can hear you scheme
As we now do, ha ha, to keep the truth
Out there where it belongs. This planet meme
About Nibiru should defeat each sleuth
Who thinks he can unearth our evil plan
To make a future for us, should distract
The rabble from our workings, to a man
And keep our dreadful secret well, in fact.
It would not do if ev'rybody knew
That some of us are working toward the day
When humankind strides to the future. Who
Could bear the thought of boundlessness, I say?
Far better to encourage weird-ass fears
That everything will end in a few years.