Universal Translator

(Picture Credit -Great Universe by Antifan Real)

It’s the first ever meeting of the Interstellar Federation

In which the “Universal Translator” is employed.

The “Chairman” stands and asks

Each delegate to make introduction by race and planet.

The first being announces:

I am Human, from Planet Earth, in The Solar System.

So the second delegate adds:

We too are “Human” and our planet is called “Earth”.

Our “Earth” orbits round The Sun, which lies

In the centre of our Solar System.

And the third representative says:

I am Human too…

And the fourth…

And the fifth…

And the sixth….

And the seventh…

Paul Butters