First Contact

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Night—bright flash of light

strange silhouettes approach horse

~ take us to leader




Poetry form:  Senryu

"The first words of a conversation initiated by aliens were immortalized in a 1953 New Yorker cartoon by Alex Graham... The cartoon depicted two aliens telling a four-legged animal—perhaps a donkey, perhaps a horse—"Kindly take us to your President!" 

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