KSP Open Mic Poetry

[Geschosskopf]

Around the corner from KSC is a little dive called "The Missing Strut". Off in a corner of its dingy, smoke-filled interior, is a microphone open to any Kerbal who, after a hard day of rocketry, is feeling existential enough to compose verse. Of course, few of the patrons ever hear these poems due to the nearly constant roar of launches and explosions coming from nearby KSC, but at least the Kerbals get to vent.

First up to the mic tonight is Melzon Kerman, just back from Mun. He originally posted this in the "What did you do today?" thread in the general forum but figured this is where it really belongs.

EXPLORATION

I found me a hole

Near the Mun's south pole

And Kerbol never shines there

If the Mun has a face

Then I know this place

Must be its derriere

There was no light

The only sight

Was the sheer cliffs all around

"Will the bottom be flat?"

"Will I go splat?"

I mused as I rumbled down

The rockets' gleam

Barely lit the scene

But I landed surprisingly well

Deep down in the hole

Near Mun's south pole

It looked like the arse-end of Hell

It was all rocks and dark

'Round the place where I'd parked

And it looked like I'd wasted the day

When I saw a faint gleam

Or a metallic sheen

A few hundred meters away

So I climbed outside

Took a jetpack ride

Why walk when you can fly?

And went toward that spark

Out there in the dark

That had barely caught my eye

When I got to the thing

I felt the sting

Of cosmic irony

Why go down the hole

Near Mun's south pole

When there's one at KSC?

So now we know what monliths are made of

[HansonKerman]

Huh. Not bad. (I have extremely bad taste in poetry)

[SiriusRocketry]

Pretty funny- the rhyming works well.