gigantic mountains
when aliens come to the earth
they will land on top of gigantic mountains
they will see the people everywhere
each alien will communicate telepathically with another alien
on the opposite side of the sphere
that is its clone and itself at the same time
like an atom in quantum physics
the same alien in two places at once
and this multiplied by millions
on top of gigantic mountains
'the strategy is to destroy humans'
each alien will tell itself and its clone
humans will understand this strategy once
the killing started, immediately happening
in two places on opposite ends of the world at
once, an alien and itself
murdering two humans by looking at their faces
then that happening repeatedly or something
for some amount of time
the humans falling over and their faces hitting the pavement
or the carpet, or the grass
or the side of a coffee table
on some dog shit
*
there will be resistance
soldiers on all parts of the earth will fight with lasers
citizen militias will hold resistance meetings
a resistance against death
a no-death resistance
a movement for death later
a movement for a different, still-uncontrollable death
'humans don't want to die this way'
will be their manifesto, one sheet of paper
or a piece of cardboard or something
*
there will be humans in basements looking at each other
wandering, solitary humans that want more to find another human than to avoid dying
solitary, severely depressed and/or enlightened humans that commit suicide by seeking out alien faces and looking at them; these humans may feel happy inside an insane nervous breakdown
humans that kill other humans because they feel insane
humans that sit in a corner, feeling extremely small, maybe considering intense killing rampages/some indefinable, positive emotion for humanity
humans that watch tv, use the internet to read the newspaper, and drive their cars around; they will be motionless on couches with their eyes open
*
the fish and insects and trees
will have the ocean and the forest
pretty sure they won't care
Copyright Credit: Brandon Scott Gorrell, "gigantic mountains" from During My Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present. Copyright © 2009 by Brandon Scott Gorrell. Reprinted by permission of Muumuu House.
Source: During My Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present (Muumuu House, 2009)