Thuvia, Maid of Mars























Thuvia, Maid of Mars,
Rested on my bookshelf,
From I was eleven,
And I never read it;
not even now have I read it.

As such,
I couldn't really say
What Thuvia, Maid of Mars,
was made of.

But I read in the Sun,
That there is life on Mars,
(or there at least
may very possibly be
very likely conditions
that don't exclude
life on Mars,
or something)

But Alas; no Thuvia!

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