Write a poem inspired by a singer or artist with this prompt from Cathleen Davies on the penultimate day of NaPoWriMo.
Opportunity
The Opportunity Rover died
On Mars
Alone
While it was getting dark
And his batteries were low
And at the time,
I was reading
about Ziggy Stardust:
The man who fell to earth
And sacrificed himself
In reverent crucifixion
And at the time
I was grieving
a beautiful young boy
who wrote stories about Catholic guilt
repressing sexualities
And I thought about how much this boy liked David Bowie
And I thought about the Spiders from Mars
And I thought about rock and roll suicides
But mostly I just worried
about Opportunity
because it is
so scary
in the dark.
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