NEIGHBOUR

NEIGHBOUR

my neighbour
is sitting on his verandah

hoping, waiting
for a personal visit
from 3I ATLAS

imagining it will help
him crush
his enemy, me
in our current
yard-border war

he wonders
how advanced it be
whether it be
alien
   artificial intelligence
or beyond conception

and whether
after they have disposed of
with contemptuous ease
and outlandish cruelty

they will
load him up for guided
trip to
    the stars

explaining everything
exhaustively in
at least
one of
   our eleven
official languages

whilst he
sinks brandies and coke
through
     wormhole after
wormhole

as his mind
     and territorial ambitions

      in parallel expand

to landholding planet-
size
      if not entire galaxy itself