Elegy to a Space Opera | And Now For Something Completely Different

This week’s Word a Week and terribleminds Flash Fiction Challenge gave me a strange idea. Instead of flash fiction, why not write poetry? It isn’t a form that I often use, but sometimes, I think it helps to kind of scramble my brains back into usefulness.

Here’s “Elegy to a Space Opera“:

O Captain! my Captain! there’s something on the wing;
Bachelorhood has weathered every rack, and he remains as one;
A daring kiss aired, yet no one cared, the ship kept right on flying:
But O heart! heart! he...