I was awakened in the middle of the night,

By a “beep, beep, beep!”

Only when I tried to turn off my alarm,

I realized it wasn’t the morning.

And so I got out of bed and

Peeked out the window,

And saw a bright, red light.

I should’ve been afraid, but

I put on my robe and

Went into my yard to,

Where the light was shining in from,

And there was this smashed up silver ball,

That looked a little like a spaceship,

But I didn’t believe it could really be that,

Right there on my yard.

But then this little green creature,

Came ambling up to me.

He looked like something out of the movies,

But not quite as cute as E.T. was.

At first I thought this was a joke or

I was dreaming, but then he reached over,

And yanked on my ear — hard! –

And man, did it hurt,

And I really wanted to punt this thing

Across my yard, but I’m too nice for that,

And besides, who knew what kind of weapons he had?

So I gave in and said, “Will you at least tell me your name?”

And he beeped out something I couldn’t understand,

But written on the side of his ship was “Xonar,” in what

Looked to be English,

So I assumed that that was where he was from and that was his planet’s name.

And I invited him in for some coffee,

Only he didn’t know what coffee is and ended up eating my garbage.

But I needed to toss it anyway, so that worked out well.