Pluto, the planet that wasn't
This is a tale of how
humans first destroyed a planet
and yet changed nothing at all.
Shuffle the Deck of definitions
Changed the ace of tradition
With a jack of a decision.
Many, a many a mile from Earth,
Older than our ancestors' births,
The twins cavort with ceasless mirth.
Like siblings in an unlit park,
Orbiting solar in eliptic arc;
Comrades together will fear no dark.
They danced inside the sea god's line,
Without trepidation advanced over the Rhine;
While astronomer's council makes water from wine.
One a great philosopher,
The other a common girl:
No longer a planet, or so we're told
Yet still through heavens they whirl.