wisconsin

You've heard,

well over a million times,

the story of  alien abductions.

Where each time the alien

becomes smaller

and the spacecraft larger.

Tiny impish,

caricaturist slit

for  a mouth.

Eyebrowless,

with no sense of humor.

The one whose tiny body

has known no American

hysteria.

No all you-can-eat buffets.

No Ambien nightmares.

No overdue mortgages.

No three day rainfalls. No

flooded basements. No

Freezers and water tanks

floating from the shipwrecked

stairwell. No child support payments.

No cheating lovers.

Just calm and spinning lights,

Pale  hostages

and silver  exasperating nights.

Reviews

[Tree]

White hostages? It does seem that way, right? But ufo heads will be the first to tell you, that one of the most credible ufo abduction cases ever was an interracial couple by the name of Betty and Barney Hill. Barney was black, and Betty was white. Set in the early 60's it was collaborated by a police officer who the couple would later say was harassing them and following them home.

Good poem, D. It put a smile on my face right before spiriting me away....


Diego

[The Twin Arenas]

Oh man, nice reference. There's a great movie with James Earl Jones about that. It's really great. Like weird overtones in it and stuff.

[Beccy]

Came back to this, (I often browse the back pages.) I'm thinking that perhaps our mostly filmic version of how aliens look and act is a subliminal desire to emulate.

Beam me up Scotty; and I just pray that McDonalds haven't got there before me! ;) Beccy.

[h d e rushin]

lol...love it....thank you my friend...dana

[Cory Barrett]

There are so many things that i love about this Michigan, and then no. I wonder if the little alien has written a poem about fall colors, tiger's baseball, good beer, and beautiful humans. Maybe, maybe not.

[writing mojo]

yes a cow tipper can be lead to slaughter just as well as cow..lemmings we are in our Chester cheese cuddle rebuke, deadlines man... I think the Mayans said it best with calendars of starting over..excellent piece

[John Destalo]

Wonderful imagery and the use of a list works very well in this piece. I especially like the image you created of the flooded basement.

[Beccy]

The watchers must think it quite humorous, observing us running around like headless chickens, so bound up in the trivial, that we hardly ever stop to wonder about the vastness all around.


Enjoyed this very much.

Beccy.

[W.k.kortas]

Perhaps your wry suggestion is a sage one; we shuld accept our new alien overlords gratefully (though, as Mr. Serling told us long ago, the ending of "To Serve Man" is a killer). Though you cite our "American/hysteria", there is none of that brooked here--there is a certain calm and measured tone to the piece, which, along with the use of repetition, emphasizes the world-weariness of the whole thing. A wothy entry to your collection.

[Matching Socks]

Those things that can't be explained...
Really great poem. Thought provoking.
I have to admit, I'm always guilty of jumping to conclusions and tend blame the husbands in cases of missing persons. Good to see you Dana! :)

[Delmar Cooper]

Debt free aliens? That is an alien concept. I love the poem.

[The Twin Arenas]

I love your writing. The last three lines.

"silver exasperating nights"

that's beautiful.

[The Twin Arenas]

i love the title, i love the subject, and I love the last line. i love that you came up with that.