Popular Poems About Aliens

She said I was “so quiet”.
I smiled and thought
 that’s because I have little to say
 about comings and goings I can’t track,
 drama and gossip I never understand,
 faceless names I’ll forget tomorrow.
Your words buzz around my head like gnats
 and I am not a part of all that.

It’s not that I don’t try to speak.
My commentary is simply
 the wrong shape
 to penetrate their ear holes
Words tumble from tongue to floor
 getting nothing but blank glances
 as if I farted or confessed an unsavory sin
 or made random...

Once upon a time, three Alices
decided to leave their parents'
houses and live alone.

Alice of Oz, built a pink palace by the sea
on a remote beach in Thailand.
Alice Snow, made a sand castle in the clouds
that hover over Mauritius.
Alice Joana Catrin Mariah Isabel Sondra Daisy Elisabeth
etc and such, she got a house of cards
made in the rainforest of Wonderland.

It turns out that the Alices had a common enemy,
who wanted to eat their raw livers for breakfast.
The Callipygian Witch, a perverse woman,
who,...