I know it's only Ragnarök 'n' Roll but...."

The sun rolls
across the floor

chased by an orange
and black cat.

Cornered like a mouse
the sun hides

just out of reach
under the chest-of-drawers.

Uranus has made it
all the way to the toilet door.

Mars has landed
in the half-eaten blancmange.

Neptune? No one knows
where Neptune's gone?

Venus floats
in the un-drunken wine.

The earth hides
in a flower ***.

Mercury balanced just upon the edge of the
table -

The moon has risen
in the child's hand.

"No...NO! Don't
eat the moon!"

The planetary mobile
has somehow come a-
-part.

The planets now
mere child's play.

Or a coloured ball
a cat could chase.

After the planets fall
to earth

I pluck Pluto from its path
the only planet left intact.

Pocket it.

"It's not the end of the world!"
I tell them all.

"Tea...anyone?"