I was going to write some weird preamble to my latest poem, but this is better:
Responding to a question, Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba told reporters on Thursday that he was studying whether the nation’s pacifist Constitution would limit a military response to an attack by space aliens.
“There are no grounds to deny that there are unidentified flying objects and some life-forms that control them,” Mr. Ishiba said, smiling at first, but then launching into a straight-faced explanation. “If Godzilla attacked, that would probably be a natural disaster relief operation,” making military action legally permissible, he said.
But the legal grounds for mobilizing militarily against a U.F.O. would be less clear unless the aliens attacked first, he said.
But why did he stop there, what about a zombie attack? Is Japan prepared for a zombie attack?
And so on to a poem:
The man swings in the trees
And can neither talk or reply
But that’s what happens
When you dispense with potables.
