LIFE ELSEWHERE

    There can be no denial that since we
    Are here on Earth, then in this galaxy
    Life elsewhere has emerged and then evolved;
    The issue that has clearly been resolved

    The questions where and when and how have yet
    To be determined, but we’ve cast our net,
    And as our sciences sophisticate,
    We may expect true answers, soon or late.

    Before that happens, though, it may be we
    Who are discovered by some entity
    Perhaps arriving in a UFO—
    A friendly one, we hope, and not our foe.

         Perhaps this feat already has been done:
         What in that Area named “51”?

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