Jupiter Rupert

Jupiter Rupert
lived near the stars,
and rode in his spaceship
to Pluto and Mars.
Each day his mother
packed lunches of cheese
and lettuce and beansprouts
and nourishing peas –
a thoroughly wholesome
galactical feast.

But once out of sight
Rupert unpacked them,
and into black holes
he would auto-eject them,
keeping the bags
so his mother could check them.

He wasn’t stupid
- Jupiter Rupert.

(Previously published in Off the Planet: A Galaxy of Cosmic Verse, Omnibus 1989.)

© Mary Blackwood