Visitors

Yesterday an alien visited from the federal
space committee tasked with preserving
life throughout the universe.
It arrived bearing a list of solutions
that would aid some of the most troublesome
problems facing the human race today,
but as it descended the ramp of its spaceship
to cameras and all the world leaders and crowds
it slipped and fell into a puddle.
It was unfortunate because such a fatal combination
of mud, a deep sense of embarrassment and the collective
laughter and pointing of those party to a fall
would trigger a chemical reaction in the alien's body,
and create an explosion enough to almost
obliterate Jupiter let alone the tiny human planet.
In fact the alien very much warned
the board of this possibility,
but the board were adamant
that humans would never
laugh at the misfortunes of others.
What made their response even more puzzling
was the fact that very recently
the crowning achievement of the human race,
according to the wisest academics
at the university of the universe,
had been Lisa Riley's vision of
the 'You've Been Framed' franchise.