Neal Levin
They've just discovered
Saturn's rings are made
from ordinary things
that vanished or that got misplaced
and floated out to Outer Space.
Not just little bits of rocks.
The rings are made of missing socks,
lunch money, remote controls,
contact lenses, doughnut holes,
grown-ups'long-lost baby teeth,
last December's Christmas wreath,
Daddy's keys and Grandma's hair,
my last clean piece of underwear,
And so I'd have to say that,
yup, that's Where
my homework ended up.