Pulsar - Transceiver

Near the galactic plane

Toward the Spiral Arms

Is where they tend to congregate en masse, pulsars

NPO520 from the Crab Nebula

A thousand year-old debris, exploded supernova

Remnants in Vela, another nebula

The second fastest, PSRO833

Throbbing like a beat, with radiating heat

In just a fraction of a second to complete

To rotate when you’re a star

To show how massive you are

Emitting all radio

You go, you go alone

A transcendental extreme

Beneath, behind and between

An X-ray and laser beam

You glow, you glow for show

Oh ostentatious mass

Your majesty won’t last

So quit while you’re ahead, celestial demagogue

Ride the wave but once

Defy your opulence

‘cause we can’t see you anyhow, there’s too much smog