Rejected Submissions to NASA’s “Send a Haiku to Mars” Contest

NASA needs your help. They’re soliciting haiku poems to send on a future mission to Mars.

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Two hundred million
miles from home. Did I forget
to turn off the stove?

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I love the view but
hate this planet’s atmosphere.
Yelp rating: three stars.

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I’ve a feeling we’re
not in Kansas anymore.
Stupid GPS.

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It’s cold here on Mars
every day. So you’d have to
be crazy to stay.

But I think it’s worth
The distance from Earth, to see
the Martians at play.

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NASA wants haiku.
Limericks are considered
inappropriate.

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It seems fitting that
these poems for Martians were
written by Vogons.

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