Bucket Tales: Bubble Rocket Poem by H E Alexander

Davy Bucket built a rocket
seeking his fortune and fame,
created for flight, round and light;
it was just one thin membrane.

His business case was to fly to space
and let people pay per trip:
floating there in the mesosphere
in a bubble for a spaceship!

What a view it would give to you
Davy sold investors his plan:
'You'll see Mars, the moon and stars
and be a real life bubble spaceman.'

So with no self-doubt, he tried it out-
floating a bubble in space: a first!
But before he could fly two miles high
his spaceship bubble burst!

Davy gave a yell as down he fell
and towards the Earth he soared.
No fame today would come his way,
no prize, no Nobel award.

But where to land? Somewhere grand?
The Ritz, St Paul's or Palladium?
But alas not, for he ended his drop
in the toilets at the London Stadium!