16) Undocumented Aliens

       Wolran Kim

 

People say they have green blood

When shouting, dashed against a soundproof wall embroiders the sky like the bourgeoisie’s fireworks, the superior country’s border gets higher and higher like the gap between heaven and earth. In a major planet, even hunger cannot prove their identity if they have no green cards masquerading them as reality, from fiction.

 

They search for daily labor in groups. Unexpected appearances of the copper-colored and unpleasant aliens are much faster and stronger than the brain of the white-collared. Rare animals, constantly born again, hosting other lives, have an inferior supernatural power. They usually say that they just came across the sea or ran through the desert.

 

Even if people find a giant skull or microscopic mummy, it is judged unconstitutionally as if it is manipulated or synthesized. In each session of a public hearing on earth, strangers who developed into humans from a letter of pardon never forget about the legend of the stars from where they left. They say that exactly the same people live outside of earth.

 

Their other selves that return home, as dollar bills every season, are as light as fallen leaves, but they, who want to mix their blood with the sons of God, still survive like a giant Nephilim*. Whenever flying seeds escape from severe regulation, they disperse and gather again, whenever an undocumented flower sheds, like a burst of laughter.

 

Each time the owners of this land leave after staying for a short time, they raise their voice as if they’re enjoying the festival, a red mark gets stamped on the final report. Just like a sea lizard in the Galapagos, they are born and bred again, shiny, even after running away. Which hungry star did their dream come from?

 

* Nephilim: A term from the Bible, meaning the offspring of the “sons of God” and “daughters of men” in Genesis.