I Read Poems: Interstellar Wallflower by Samuel Lowd Goldstein

 

Interstellar Wallflower by Samuel Lowd Goldstein in The Future Fire

Aliens arrive. They’re not interested in humans. They spend their time with other animals, cephalopods, cetaceans, elephants, lemurs, crows. Humans try to get their attention, in good ways and bad, and the aliens kind of just get on with what they want.

A fun poem about human self-centredness, also lightly addressing three or four common first contact tropes.

Read This: A brief, rich and entertaining meditation on alien first contact
Don’t Read This: It’s all in the title and first two lines