Ted the Explorer

Ted the Explorer

Ted was unsure if Delaware was the right area.
He kept thinking of all the territories
In all the countries
Of all the worlds
He just had to study this one.
But he had his orders.

Ted looked at his badge: “To carry out our orders
we study every and all areas,
we carry our orders down to the last one,
so we may document and record all territories.”
Although Ted regretted having picked Earth of all worlds
He was content having to be in an ok country.

While in the coffee shop, Ted contemplated on the alien idea of a country
They were common enough, and his orders
very clearly said that this world
was full of them. But it was odd to divide areas
in that way. It was familiar at least to have unofficial territories.
But the division of sovereign nations was a weird one.

Ted raised his tentacle to waitress, asking for one
More vanilla latte. His friend had studied countries
That had different humans divided in different territories.
He wasn’t sure if this was their choosing or some state order
but Ted saw in Delaware, at least in this area
There were no such divisions. Again, odd way overall to divide a world.

While reading an issue of the “Delaware defender,” Ted was reminded of other worlds
Where there was one statesman, one country, and only one
Law system. Where, of course for a planet, they had different areas
But they were all just for location, vey unlike a country
Some humans he talked to wondered how you could maintain order
Like that. Without some division of independent territories.

Ted often told them on his planet there is one territory.
His kind could get away with that, coming from a world
no bigger than the earth moon. But while wondering if he would order
anything else, he realized it was natural that one
would be confused by a planet that had no use for a country
and no use for what an earthling or vesuvian would call an official area

So Ted slithered away after paying his tab from dining area
Thinking after all this wasn’t that bad of a, as they say, country
It was certainly no Planet TXL102390, but there are easily far worse ones.