Still Life with Teen Love and Alien Invasion

They are young & in love & as they stand in the moonlit field & feel the wind in their hair & hold hands in defiance of everything that they think their parents & society demands of them & say each other’s names like talismans against the vagaries of a cruel world, Ibrahim & Liam are sure in that way of all teenagers that they are the most misunderstood people in all of creation & the universe is against them & will always be against creatures so wonderfully unique & strange as them so when the spacecraft shaped like a ziggurat & as big as a mountain appears in the sky wreathed in fire & destruction they really aren’t surprised.