Big-Screen Banality

Let's workshop this poem about how the belief in extraterrestrial abduction is disheartening on so many goddamn levels!

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Big-Screen Banality 

If our unwavering trust
in UFO abduction (despite
simpler, less radical explanations)

was not pitiful enough,
the green men—increasingly
aligned with Hollywood cliché—

prove suspiciously unexotic
even relative to our Earth cousins:
axolotls, giraffes, ants.

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