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A Poem For Suw, by Neil Gaimen

Suw, we miss you.. the SuwBot isn’t ready yet, but if it was, we’re sure this poem would have it spinnning it’s cooling fan at 104%…

The Day the Saucers Came

That day, the saucers landed. Hundreds of them, golden,
Silent, coming down from the sky like great snowflakes,
And the people of Earth stood and stared as they descended,
Waiting, dry-mouthed to find what waited inside for us
And none of us knowing if we would be here tomorrow
But you didn’t notice it because

That day, the day the saucers came, by some coincidence,
Was the day that the graves gave up their dead
And the zombies pushed up through soft earth
or erupted, shambling and dull-eyed, unstoppable,
Came towards us, the living, and we screamed and ran,
But you did not notice this because

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Link: Spiderwords: The Day The Saucers Came

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