Bonus Poem: NEOWISE: It Seems the Preacher/Teacher (Ecclesiastes) Was Wrong

NEOWISE: 

It Seems the Preacher/Teacher (Ecclesiastes) Was Wrong

Staying up late the other night

So I can try to catch a glimpse

Of NEOWISE, the new comet,

I worry the clouds make hazy 

The northwest sky. But then I spy,

Using my new binoculars,

Something that looks like a flashlight,

Its beam pointing towards the Dipper,

64 million miles away!

Oh, what a mystery, to me,

That something just three miles across

Is visible to us at all,

To say nothing of the fact that

It was just discovered in March! 

Now, a slingshot blast, it speeds past.

This belies the old adage that

There’s nothing new under the sun,

Or—as it turns out—around it!