Alien Tour Guide

Take a moment to observe-- see the humans on this earth?

See the inordinate amount of them who, shortly after birth,

have chosen to ignore all their instinctive inhibition,

deciding that they’d rather focus solely on ambition?

However, if you squint-- if you’re as quiet as can be--

then you might-- by slim chance-- be allowed to see

a peculiar girl-- a slightly backward one--

a human with the tendency to shun

those who pay themselves in wages to convention--

Yet she, of course, pays much more just to evade attntion.

“Maybe,” she’s been known to say, “my life will contain more--

Perhaps when my breath beats gently at death’s door,

I’ll have established more in this tediously wanting life,

than the accomplishments of a salesman or the status of a wife.

But until that day, my conviction will stay drawn--

I’ll flip burgers until midnight-- I’ll do homework until dawn!

And if, by chance, hesitation is of mind to slice me through,

and I find myself undoing all I dreamt that I would do--

at least I can stand firmly, secure in the decision, tht as sturdy as success seems, it’s often just adhesion.”

Come further, my dear tourists, let’s observe the next one here,

were you aware that Jupiter has only one leap year?