Eclipse Below Deck

Every celestial event’s unique,

Which leads the press to make breathless statements

In hopes of holding eyeballed attention,

Such as, longest partial lunar eclipse

In five hundred and eighty years. Be glad

For the media’s avid avarice.

Without it, you’d neglect the trivial

Degrees difference will go to to be

A degree of difference. Every wave

Is a little bit different, but try

Selling that to the ship’s crew and seasick

Passengers staggering around on deck.

There’ll always be another wave and then

Another wave, and every full moon brings

A new moon, and the only pure sameness

Is endless extension of difference

In every observed and conceivable

Direction. Too bad you missed the eclipse.