The Eye of Jupiter

Who could find fault with their mission
aboard The Beam, lights playing off the
surface of its long cylindrical shape, as
it approached the swirling eye of Jupiter?
From orbit they launched a small probe
known as "The Mote" to scan for a
suitable landing site in which The Beam
could be safely lodged, not realizing
that it was all simply part of an elaborate
biblical allusion they had been judged
worthy to act out on a cosmic scale,
puppets of a pseudo-delusional poet.


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