Spectator Competition: Space to think

Competition 3370 invited poems about the predicament of the Nasa astronauts stranded on the ISS – thanks to Paul Freeman for this suggestion. There was a wide range of ideas about how they could use their time, from self–improvement to… other things. Due to a different space issue, many good entries had to be jettisoned, but those below win £25.

Five miles a second, travelling at speed,
Recycling the water we’ve formerly weed,
Dusk follows dawn every hour and thirty,
There’s too much to do to be shouty or shirty –

We came for a week, but our taxi was iffy;
No need to be uppity,...