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Ultima Thule

from Holy Crap, A New Album by Tom Smith

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RJ Johnson suggested this the day the pictures came back, and I wrote it almost instantly.

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Ultima Thule
was a blob of rock and ice,
And this New Year New Horizons got near,
sending pictures that were nice.

Six and a half billion
kilometers away,
So it took some time, but the pics were fine,
and they just arrived today.

There must have been some iron in
the rock because it’s red,
No! Exotic ice irradiated
by cosmic rays instead.

Oh, Ultima Thule,
like a snowman out in space,
Past our solar system, the most distant
thing we’ve seen face to face.

Ultima Thule,
really two rocks side by side,
Moving oh so slow that we kinda know
just how gently they’d collide.

Ultima Thule,
twenty-one miles end to end,
All this time it’s dwelt in the Kuiper Belt,
now it’s finally got a friend.

We hope to find more clues to how
our system came to be,
‘Cause unlike here in the interior,
there’s much less activity!

Oh, Ultima Thule,
may your samples prove pristine,
Then we’ll learn more ‘bout how we started out,
Where we’ll go and where we’ve been!

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from Holy Crap, A New Album, released March 20, 2020
Music: "Frosty the Snowman" by Walter "Jack" Rollins and Steve Nelson

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Weird Al with more books, JoCo with more jokes, Carlin with more Cthulhu. Since 1985, Tom Smith has been breaking hearts, minds, and laws of propriety and physics with his insane blend of sf/fantasy, Life With Computers, pop culture, politics, and puns. More than twenty albums later, he maintains the best is yet to come. ... more

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