Aliens Have Landed!
by Kenn Nesbitt

The aliens have landed!
It’s distressing, but they’re here.
They piloted their flying saucer
through our atmosphere.
They landed like a meteor
engulfed in smoke and flame.
Then out they climbed immersed in slime
and burbled as they came.
Their hands are greasy tentacles.
Their heads are weird machines.
Their bodies look like cauliflower
and smell like dead sardines.
Their blood is liquid helium.
Their eyes are made of granite.
Their breath exudes the stench of foods
from some unearthly planet.
And if you want to see these
sickly, unattractive creatures,
you’ll find them working in your school;
they all got jobs as teachers.


     This is the second poem I've responded to by Kenn Nesbitt, probably because I found it on the same website, but Kenn might be my favorite poet. Most of his poems follow the same formula, they all describe something in a lot of funny and bizarre details, and then in the last line or two he says what he is describing and it is something funny and unexpected.
      I really like how Kenn describes the aliens in this poem. His descriptions are so vivid and describe the aliens in terms of every sense so the reader feels like you  are right next to one of the aliens.  The part about their bodies being like cauliflower really speaks to me, because my mom made some spicy cauliflower for dinner the other night. It was pretty good. " Their eyes are made of granite." is  a very imaginative line. I mean just imagine how weird it would be to see something with granite eyes. Those aliens must have really strong necks.
     I like this poem because it is imaginative funny.