By Jack PrelutskyIllustrated by Jimmy Pickering

Imagine new worlds of excitement!

Filled with new life and adventure.

Full of trees and flowers,

Bugs, robots, and other beings

But what if things were not as they seem…

What if every step you took could be your last?

What if you froze and “shatter into bits”? “No human being can survive The cold of Drifig Prime,…”

“When you’re on Grob, you undergo A cataclysmic change Beyond your understanding,…”

Never able to leave, you will have to see.

The trees of Fesstor, alive are they?

And what about the planet Sarbro, there is something familiar looking about that tree.

The bugs on the planet Gub, “…swarm upon your tender skin, And gnaw your nose , and chomp your skin.”

“The monopods of Ogdofod” will catch you in their web and dinner for their pets you will become.

A “savage monarch” eating alien bones on the planet Zazorzz.

On Gazook, chowder for dinner, what is that taste?

Visitors to our own world? What do the aliens of Strovilean think of planet Earth?

One will have to read to see.

Exerts and some images taken from, Prelutsky, Jack; Pickering, Jimmy (2011-02-16). The Swamps of Sleethe: Poems From Beyond the Solar System. Knopf Books for Young Readers. Kindle Edition.