Sometimes when Syd gets home from the moon
Where he goes everyday
from seven a.m. to six p.m.
he's too tired to play
and he feels too broken to recite
and he calls the moon some mornings
to tell them he can't go
because he's sick
because his spaceship is broken
because he can't get out of bed
and the moon man says
if he keeps calling in, he could be exiled
To Mars
and Mars doesn't pay!
Sometimes I go to the moon
and watch Sydney ask people
how they want their eggs
if they need another drink
And Sydney says
He'd like to quit the moon
and tell the moon man
where he can put Mars
and then he'd stay on Pluto, where he lives
all the time
counting stars
sleeping in craters
playnig with The Pluto Cats
writing poems that make no sense
because that's what he likes to do
But he has to keep going to the moon
because Mars doesn't pay
and The Pluto Cats
aren't booked as often as they'd like
Sometimes when Syd gets home though,
from the moon
he's really tired