Comin’ Your Way

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COMIN’ YOUR WAY

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Look out, Ophiuchus, Voyager’s here!

Earth has randomly shot some gold your way.

We hope our sounds and music suit your ear

and you’ll get back to us without delay.

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The complete instructions are included

for how to hook it up to get your tunes.

Note that if depiction seems deluded,

we tried to use the simplest of runes.

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We showed ourselves as naked, but, in fact,

much of the time we really do wear clothes

And we omitted fingernails, for tact,

since claws convey predation, I suppose.

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We want to hear from you though, which is why

We’ve shot this out to any passerby.

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James Ph. Kotsybar's haiku achieved Martian orbit on September 22, 2014, becoming the first literature to another world, aboard NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. His poem, "Martian Connoisseur" has been circling the Red Planet for over 1,000 Earth days, however, Guinness Book of World Records, the Nobel Committee and Pulitzer Prize Directors have yet to weigh in on this record accomplishment. More information on MAVEN is available from https://mars.nasa.gov/maven/