And another odd bit of poetry from my files of weird things put away for another day.

An Ode to Panspermia is a tongue-in-cheek piece I penned back in 1971 dedicated to the theory (supportable and plausible, by the way) that Earth was seeded with the stuff of life from “out there somewhere.” Evidence in favor of this theory continues to mount, though there is vociferous resistance to both the theory and its implications at all levels. There aren’t many who like the idea that we may have accidentally (deliberately?) been transported here from somewhere else. Anyway, I thought this might be fitting here. If for no other reason than to drop a little humor and maybe spur some creative juices. Many of you may have seen this since it has been around for a mite over forty-five years, and I’ve had the unmitigated gall to post and publish it in several places. My apologies.

AN ODE TO PANSPERMIA
by
J. Richard Jacobs

I’m an alien, you’re an alien—we sprang from alien sources.

Homo Sapiens and the Simians—even Arabian horses.

I’m an alien, you’re an alien—we came on alien transports.

So did the orca, the dolphin clan, and all their cetacean cohorts.

And now that we’re here, we’ve nothing to fear but future visits from alien sources.