Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft

In your mind you have capacities you know
To telepath messages through the vast unknown
Please close your eyes and concentrate
With every thought you think
Upon the recitation we're about to sing

Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary, most extraordinary craft

Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary, most extraordinary craft

You've been observing our earth
And we'd like to make a contact with you
We are your friends. . . .

Klaatu, memorably covered by the Carpenters (& the Langley Schools Music Project!), in honor of Gwynedd Elaine, who I haven't heard from in approximately fifteen years, emerging today from the woodwork thus:

"Been reading Anodyne for a couple of months. It felt slightly voyeuristic, not letting you know I was around - but then, blogging is public, kinda the point. And I wasn't entirely sure what to say or how to say it - my writing these days is almost entirely along the lines of 'Stereotactic brain biopsy as an outpatient procedure' or 'Long-term radiographic results following cervical laminectomy and screw-rod lateral mass fixation in the treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy,' although I did just get a poem published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal - but finally decided to come out of the shadows. I'm surprised that I wasn't driven out earlier by everything I wanted to say about Michelina (like, oh *yah* Tove Jansson was one of the best when it came to odd, ethereal, spookiness that I knew at age 9 was slightly beyond my comprehension, but made my mind, my whole inside space, feel stretched. . . ."
- posted by cjb @ 9:12 PM