he was obsessed with UFOs
his room was decorated
with pictures of them.
he had model UFOs dangling from
his bedroom ceiling.
he talked about UFOs and aliens
all the damn time.
people got bored with him;
they thought he was a kook.
he dreamed of meeting aliens
and taking a ride on a UFO.
one day he said he could
contact aliens,
something he called
close encounters of the fifth kind.
everybody felt he’d gone crazy
talking such nonsense
until they saw a UFO over his house
and they never saw him again.
Bob Boyd