PERFECT SENSE

PERFECT SENSE

they returned
from the stars

less than
gloriously poetic
but who
we were we
to tell

expecting free gifts
not extenpore pastorsls
and sonnets

our highest virtue
being utility itself
their
   ultra violet skin tones
and much
    mutated fusion of
every dialect of English

made everything they said
every utterance
they made

much like their poetry
and what
they revealed of
their world

something doomed in our ears
to fall desperately short
of true
   perfect sense

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