In 1966 Debbie Fuller Was Sweet on Pluto

a poem by David Clewell

At Hamilton Elementary, forty years before
Pluto lost its planetary status,
there was just one small mistake in Debbie
Fuller’s solar system.
Typically a ten-year-old stickler for the
scientific method, this time
she couldn’t help herself: she gave her favorite
planet floppy ears . . .

                                         —read the entire poem here