None Spared

or, You Can’t Hide From the Electric Slide

by Richard Tornello

All the media, in a tizzy reports,
Throughout the planet flights abort.
Governments issue proclamations.
No one believes their explanations.
None spared.

Cars, trucks, taxis, busses, and bikes,
traffic screeches a halt alike,
and exited all.
Cars, trucks, taxis, busses, and bikes
exited all, alike.
None spared.

Speech? Stopped mid sentences, eyes
eyes to the heavens raised
Cooking? Food burned. IT begins
Loving? Questioning lover now
abandoned, IT begins
Ears cocked towards where?
Slight movement here and there,
IT begins.
None spared.

And THEN, From the heavens, IT
reverberates from radios,
TV, from without, IT transmits
the universal call
the tune, comes through to all.
They all line up.
None spared.

If on cue
The women of the world
If on cue
Dance the dance of the alien plan
If on cue
Organized sliding feet
If on cue
The electric slide’s hypnotizing beat.
None spared.

The blushing bride forsakes her newly acquired spouse,
the car, the party… the brand new house.
To the alien call they bend and turn and twist and prance
To the alien call, they… all… dance.
None spared.

If my words you don’t believe,
At the next party your vision
You will receive.
At the next party, the next time played
to the dance floor a stamped, a raid.
None spared.

They all get up and in a line begin
back and forth, side to side, round and
round they spin,
as if controlled by a foreign brain
could last all night if food remains.
None spared.

The plot thickens from genesis six
but the then technology was a mess:
“The women of humans are lovely, comely and smart.
We will take them as partners, lovers, wives,
and depart.
Today our technology they finally understand.
Together all, we will leave this planet
hand in hand.”
They will be spared.

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Men of Earth will now be free to kill at will.
as they please, no restrictions, with ease.
None spared.

None spared.