A message from Saturn directed to Earthlings.
Greetings, Earthlings.
I’m sending you this message from Saturn
the most gender-rich of all the planets.
We bend our genders every which way
and however we bent them, they never break.
Myself, I’m blessed with at least 43 genders
and my next door neighbor has a total of 61.
Doesn’t this make you a bit envious?
But every virtue comes with a defect
and we suffer from a paucity of pronouns
to accompany our plenitude of genders.
Your planet has an abundance of everything
so I expect it’s swarming with pronouns
if Trump hasn’t put a tariff on them.
So would you kindly send a few to us?
Lawrence Millman is the author of 21 books, including such titles as Last Places, Our Like Will Not Be There Again, At the End of the World, Fungipedia, The Last Speaker of Bear, Goodbye Ice, and — most recently – Outsider. Shop for his books at Thrift Books and other book sellers.
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