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TRANSLATED FROM ALIEN BY PROFESSOR R L ASQUITH Sky Pony Press New York
Earthlings Beware If you see this sign follow it at your peril Especially if it says any flavor you like with extra flakes and toffee sauce
MISSION EARTH DAY ONE SUNDAY Measly Dwelling Row of Identical Dwellings Tiny Country Called England Misshapen Islands Called Britain Insignificant Dot Called Earth Feeble Solar System Forty-third Galaxy from the Right Virgo Supercluster Wrong End of the Universe Dear Rokbumme Here we are squashed inside a repulsive house on the most ill-tempered ugly planet in the Universe Earth The weather is gray and freezing which is not surprising since Earth has only one sun and that seems to be covered up most of the time with wet floating blobs called clouds I am as cold as a ploogle and as mad as a bagful of scratchflackets We arrived here unsafely nearly beheading two ancient Earthlings which was all the pilot’s fault 5
