Poems of the Week

Chariots That Defraud

by Chris O’Carroll

“… Carl Sagan said of Mr. von Däniken [author of Chariots of the Gods]: ‘Every time he sees something he can’t understand, he attributes it to extraterrestrial intelligence, and since he understands almost nothing, he sees evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence all over the planet.’”
The New York Times

Space-cadet fabulist
Erich von Däniken
Milked his delusions for
All they were worth,

Selling his New Age fans
Extraterrestrial
Origin stories for
Science on Earth.