The question just two weeks ago
Or maybe it’s been three
Was in this roomy universe
Just how alone are we?
Whistleblowers testified
And made a presentation
Claiming they’d seen vehicles
Supporting Drake’s equation
That even in our Milky Way
Whose spiral arms are spinning
The seeds of life were planted
Somewhere else in its beginning
Then add a million galaxies
To fertilize the plot
Life with some intelligence
Is more likely than it’s not
There was a bit of furor
And it lasted for a day
Then, like so much of media
It simply went away
When they asked Chris Christie
He smirked before he spoke
Criticized the question
And he took it as a joke
Now no one’s come and asked me
But I’ll put it in my bio
I don’t think there’s a saucer
In a hanger in Ohio
SETI will keep scanning
And we’ll all sit on the jury
Hoping for talk radio
From Proxima Centuri
Keep listening to static
Maybe somewhere there’s a WOW
I hope to see it happen but
The answer (as of now)–
We are the only breath of life
From here to yonder star
And even if we’re not
We should behave as if we are