Space Man’s Lament

by Juan Manuel Perez

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goodbye pretty whores
with your red skin and six breasts
with your long silk hair

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with your supple lips
with your soft conforming hips
oh how I’ll miss you

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goodbye pretty whores
who help me forget my life
out here in deep space

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out here in the dark
out here in this vast nothing
out here so alone

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goodbye pretty whores
and all the great times we had
and all the filled space

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and all the great sex
and all the loudness that was
and all beyond this

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goodbye pretty whores
even if it was all lies
internal mirage