The Earth Show

The Earth Show

 

An almost intelligent species believes
Three dimensions comprise the entire universe
How did we get this lucky?

Their feats first left us furious
Burning the land for agriculture?
Wiping out species you need to survive?
Treating your smarter half as slaves?

Then we tried a small intervention
Sent extra-dimensional has-beens;
Humans made them goblins, ghosts, gods
For thousands of years we laughed ourselves sick

Soon the Earth Show went galactic
Even ten-dimensionals glided down from their heavens
Watching hapless, hopeless, deluded folk
Become ever more hopeless
We witnessed the utility of stupidity:
Dumb is funny

After film and television we tried some tweaks
Soon their “media” redid our finest actions
Turning UFOs into mighty avatars
New gods who will provide
The happiness humans routinely discard;
If there’s something humans really want
They wreck it
You have to laugh

Now some of their physicists know what’s up
Recognize three dimensions cannot
Scratch the surface of the information galaxies
They wish to pierce the other dimensions
Might find us
They must be stopped

We’re grateful for great human allies:
Leaders who live to curtail research
Schools that ban dictionaries
Replace science with “creation science”
Dinosaurs and people tramping the earth together?

Idiocy originated long before Earth
Yet great practitioners now stride its lands
Certain they’re the lone intelligence in the Universe
It’s so delicious – what do humans say?
The show must go on