UFOs:

Perhaps we have been visited
they came, they studied, they fled –
what would be the Latin for that
(venerunt studuerunt fugerunt)?
Or else they have yet to arrive
but will and see our catastrophe –

highlighted for me by a sign
during the time of viral spread
armed protestors with a placard
that read our body our choice
and I could not help the ironic thought –
do these gun wielding protestors
think the same applies for women who wish
to exercise choice over their bodies?

I think not –
control of the feminine
has always been at the root
of the barrel and bullet brigade.

Did their mothers, like alien beings,
unsuited to the task of life on earth
study their child's ways and then flee?

Perhaps in their saucers of life
they found it too hard to continuously give
love and comfort
to these little gun-toting boys who rose from beds
with hurt and killing thoughts
buzzing in their alien heads.