The Tower, Fall 2019

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Love Otherworldly Melody Weckel-Confer The dreamy books of love: love only exists between humans and aliens. Affection is best heard through earthling ears, whispered as sweet-nothings by a Martian to her lover. Back then, we didn’t know that the only real love is interspecies. The Buddhists discovered the universal truth before anyone else on Earth. The enlightened opened their third eye and saw blue creatures of light—they felt warmth in their hearts like when their mother smiled upon them as a child. A loving oven. The first human relationship with one of the cosmic race was Buzz Aldrin with a lady of the Moon. A missed connected formed amongst the craters. Love at first step for mankind. Maybe love is really about worship. Buzz worshipped his lunar love as if she were a goddess. Maybe love between species is just the same as mortal affection—a long series of misplaced admiration. Biologically, humans are evolved from earlier versions of ourselves—apes, Neanderthals. Some people say the aliens are seeking out breeding partners to complete the next evolutionary process. We aren’t supposed to say ‘alien’ anymore. We need to know where they come from:

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