Waiting For UFO (Godot)

I called UFOs three nights in a row,

flashing my light into the sky.

They came, five orbs as big as globe

lightbulbs, in a row, even spaced,

floating in the air about thirty feet 

away outside my bedroom window, 

just before I fell asleep.

All I know is that they were something

that should not have been there, didn’t

belong there, not of this world.

I froze in bed until they floated away 

over my house.

I got what I asked for, but then it was 

just too weird.

Imagine a UFO landing on the White

House lawn….The Day The Earth Stood

Still doesn’t come close to the reaction 

that would happen.

People get kerfuffled about trivialities;

the marriage of Taylor Swift,

hyperbolic posts on X.

Imagine the panic if the world discovered 

everything we know is wrong.

Everything we know is wrong.