They landed in the park-rec soccer complex, all those inviting geometric lines. We threw parties. The school band played the Star Wars theme. We thought they liked us; they said they did. Said they’d return. Now we build cargo cult ships – impotent rockets to entice. We watch the skies.
Thomas O’Connell is a librarian living in Massachusetts.
Somehow quite fits the times .. thank you.
Will never look at a soccer pitch in quite the same way…..
Ground control to Major Tom: Skiddly wah, wah, wah…contact. We reach.
Wow! Nice one.