If somebody asks me

If somebody asks me
why I’m standing in the middle
of a soccer field in the dark
I’ll say “A spaceship is coming to pick me up.
Don’t worry. I volunteered.”

(So Gérard walked east toward the star
the blue and pink one
visible even in Paris
where Iris’s scarf spanned the Marais
when I was there in 2001)

I was actually trying to find Comet McNaught
and take a picture of it
but it was too low or there were too many trees or lights

Coincidentally, exactly at that moment
a Chinese missile destroyed an old weather satellite

I didn’t see that either