Alien world

Another world is the world of dreams
where nothing can be quite what it seems,
reality smashed to smithereens.
Take your head from the sand,
wake up and stir the blood in your veins.
Now your world will expand.

http://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/poetry-tow-truck-51-aliens-exist/ prompts us to look at other worlds and aliens.  I combined my pragmatic approach to that with the proposal at  http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/?zx=b5584de227c1b80e
to write a Burns stanza à la Ode to a Mouse

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x x x x x x x a
x x x x x b
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x x x x x b