Destined to Grow Apart by Malika Booker | Spoken Word Adaptation of Terrestrial Planets | BBC Earth

Writer, poet, theatre maker and educator, Malika Booker (@malikabooker) personifies Mars in this poem about planetary siblings. Subscribe:

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