Earth From Space (So They Say)

She were born in Debaqqamee, Handustan,

to two tough nuts from Lower deBoome --

or so I’ve been given 
to understand, driven

by works from the ballpoint of Hume.

She were rais’d in Toronto, Ontario,

in a household of Canada geese

who, engulf’d (past-due bills), 
soon bequeath’d their best quills

to a paperback writer in Greece.

As a child, 'midst the mists of mid-dimnights,
when Sargassos flow iciest cold,
she would slip from her bed, 
slip her slip o'er her head
and let rip: skinny dipping (I'm told).