“Picking Up Aliens: A Guide” by John Grey
The book, is well thumbed
being the preferred reference book
in this galaxy
for many-thumbed creatures.
When it delves into skin color,
it reminds me of a brochure
of latex paints.
How to catch a female’s eye
acknowledges the difficulties involved
when she has seventeen of them,
and not all on her face.
And I can’t believe the names
of all these favorite drinks…
Sex in the Cerebral Void,
Cybernetic Implant On The
Tyroleon Rocks.
I gloss right over
the chapter on Earthlings.
Do our women really respond
to a tickle under the chin
with a long green feeler?
There’s an underlying theme I guess
to how to seduce
a three headed Gorb
or an alligator-scaled Spilth
and it’s that beauty is
in the eye of the beholder
or when you’re ten thousand light years from home,
anything looks good.
That’s why, on Oroboros,
I silently slip off my wedding ring.
Not from guilt,
but so she’ll know it’s my finger.
| John Grey has been published recently in The Echolocation, Bryant Literary Review and Caveat Lector with work upcoming in Clark Street Review, GW Review and The Potomac Review. |