What if...
Aliens abduct humans and animals because they think we're litter, and they're just doing a good deed on their way to Venus?
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
they are capable of making contact, then they are rational. And vice versa;
if they are rational, they are capable of contact. And in general: if an
extraterrestrial creature has the honor of possessing human psychology, then
it is rational. Like that."
cubbyholes."
"
"No, wait a minute." For some reason, Noonan felt cheated. "If you
don't know simple things like that.... All right, the hell with reason.
Obviously, it's a real quagmire. OK. But what about the Visitation? What do
you think about the Visitation?"
Noonan shuddered.
"What did you say?"
"A picnic. Picture a forest, a country road, a meadow. A car drives off
the country road into the meadow, a group of young people get out of the car
carrying bottles, baskets of food, transistor radios, and cameras. They
light Fires, pitch tents, turn on the music. In the morning they leave. The
animals, birds, and insects that watched in horror through the long night
creep out from their hiding places. And what do they see? Gas and oil
spilled on the grass. Old spark plugs and old filters strewn around. Rags,
burnt-out bulbs, and a monkey wrench left behind. Oil slicks on the pond.
And of course, the usual mess--apple cores, candy wrappers, charred remains
of the campfire, cans, bottles, somebody's handkerchief, somebody's
penknife, torn newspapers, coins, faded Bowers picked in another meadow."
"
if they will come back."