joey's pet

when joey talked about his pet
the other kids said "can it"
but he was justfied because
his pet was a small planet

it followed him where'er he went
rotating on its axis
it did not beg or fetch or catch
that never was its praxis

the other kids made fun of it
and sometimes tried to throw it
the ribbing got to be so bad
he'd hardly ever show it

of his grasp of astronomy
they shouldn't have been reliant
joe's planet was not that at all
it was a small gas giant

one day that star began to grow
it went all supernova
expanding several times the earth
and everything was ova