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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

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

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

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

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

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

╚⚫
goodbye pretty whores
even if it was all lies
internal mirage


© 2023 Juan Manuel Perez

Juan Manuel Perez is a Mexican-American of Indigenous descent and the author of multiple books of poetry. Juan currently resides in Corpus Christi, Texas. To learn more about him, visit his offical website at https://www.juanmperez.com/

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