Driving through Kingman, Kansas
eerie alien scary movie music
suddenly radiated, slow to loud,
from my friend’s purse
I stared at it, a bit freaked out,
and she said,
“It’s nothing, just my doctor calling!”
Laughing, I now know
what she thinks about her doctor,
applying that sound to his number!
TR
Traveling to the Regionals in pre-dawn darkness
I started noticing multitudes of flashing blue lights
in arrhythmic bursts, sparkles. flickers
everywhere in front of us
and thought…“terrible accident” or maybe “aliens”
I asked others on the school bus, but no one knew
We all watched the blue mesmerizing flashes
Eventually, one by one they whipped past and behind us
but they were not emergency vehicles
It dawned on me, they had to be the
circular irrigators, absolutely all of them in the area,
energetically expressing themselves
with color and with invisible liquid
Later in the day we had sixty-mile an hour winds
ah… the farmers had pre-watered the fields so
the precious dirt wouldn’t move to Nebraska
Watching War of the Worlds
fighting aliens with Tom Cruise
Not even aware that
beneath our own house
sinister tentacles burrow stealthily
Just as an alien pulls Tom
up into its evil grasp
my husband shouts from
the bathroom
“The tub is flooded and
the toilet’s overflowing!”
Scramble to stop the double deluge
movie and aliens forgotten
Water came from the dishwasher!
Call the plumber, who
after using the Snake
destroyed the alien
limbs that had taken over
our pipes
Evil extraterrestrials called Elms
from the planet Earth!
TR
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