George Olivet's Poem

Poems Of Hope, Spirits, The Book Of The Dead 

by Cliff Rhodes

 

George Olivet's Poem

03-28-2013

 

   George Olivet was a space explorer and founding father of all Mars original colonies.  His famous poem can be read at the beginning of the Martian Bible Of Credit, year 2037.

 

Character Of Gold - by George Olivet

 

On these dusty shores of Mars, I stake my claim.

Fragrant Argon for air, I breath not but exhale and wait.

Life's sweet oxygen, I make my own like my reputation.

Flying with leaps on satin smooth gravity, I play.

 

Credit is my tether like a helium balloon in 0.67 kpa.

It grows enormous on Mars without steady payments.

Taking my Earthly test of final retribution, I fail.

Breaking my tether to Earth, I pop the credit balloon in shame.

 

I will not regret that I am free of Earth's torment.

Roaring like a lion, now I'm self sufficient formed.

I make up for lost time by selling back to my creditors.

What once was theirs is now mine, and they are forever indebted.

 

They will pay back to me what they took by guile.

I'll never another payment make into Earth's finances.

Martian gold I'll find in the canals and sell wholesale.

Once, long ago, my character was broken; now it's made entirely of gold.