The Colonisation of the Red Planet – Mars 

Applications

Please consider this my application

I hail from the UK, that's my nation.

I would like you to consider me

As I have the following traits, you see.

I thought I may be too old to go,

But age brings experience, so you never know.

I may bring something to the table

That others can't or won't be able...

I'd love to learn to drive the spaceship

Perhaps that's something I could try?

Women are not all bad drivers, men

think so, but I'm not sure why!

I'm a good cook and can handle soup ladles,

I can rock babies in their cradles.

Had plenty of practice, that is why.

Anything you suggest, I will give it a try.

We'll set up a colony, we may even breed

and that means babies, yes indeed.

I could assist a doctor or a midwife

As we help to bring forth new human life.

I could be a counsellor, I could lend my ear

Bring your worries to me, do not fear.

I'll never divulge your words for that is essential,

All you say will be confidential.

I have never been one to gossip

We don't want that behaviour aboard the spaceship.

Come talk it over, your every little worry

Will disappear, quietly, in a hurry.

You will be happy to come to me,

for lots and lots of sympathy

and (this is the way that it should be)

several cups of red Martian tea!

So, when you colonise Mars,

Please.....Take me!

May 2018

NO, I do not want to go to Mars! All that red would give me a thumping headache and I like my comforts far too much for that.

And, I'm far too old, I would be dead before you arrived there. And you would have

the added problem of disposing of my body.

So please...leave me behind.