An friend named Walter claimed
he had been abducted by aliens,
probes, extractions, claims they
had created him.
I didn’t buy that aliens had created
Walter, but something about him
was totally off.
It was as if they had recreated him.
His voice, expressions, and body
movements were different.
He reminded me of a replicant
from the movie Blade Runner, a
human turned unhuman.
A day later, Walter vanished and
was never seen again.
I wondered if the aliens had taken
him again, maybe part of an
experiment they wanted to examine
on their planet.
Or maybe Walter had just gone mad,
and chose to disappear himself.
Whatever the case, Walter was no
longer the Walter I had known.
Bob Boyd