Alien invasion # 5483

The aliens came from a far distant world
In a large yellow ship that blinked as it twirled
It rounded the moon and it entered our sky
We knew they had come, but we didn't know why.

Bright the next morning with noisy commotion
The ship slowly moved out over the ocean
It lowered a tube and it drained the whole sea
For transport back home to their galaxy.

The tube sucked up the clouds and the air
Causing no small amount of Earthling despair
With nothing to breathe, we started to die
"Help us! Please stop!" was the public outcry.

A hatch opened up and the aliens said,
"We're sorry to learn that you soon will be dead.
But though you may find this slightly macabre,
We prefer your extinction to the loss of our jobs."

--- Bill Waterson (Calvin and Hobbes)

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