Body Hunt

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Too many exotic beings line up

In my sight as I turn my head.

All of them are beautiful, gorgeous,

Quite tempting. But they're not perfect.

How can anything be perfect when evil

Has marred their face? How can these

Aliens ever be truly holy

When they can't satisfy needs

Of joy and shared, secret pleasure?

Why must any hint of incompatibility

Lead to an instant rejection?

I must sit back and accept fallibility.

Perhaps I was wrong to travel

To this desert of inhuman corpses,

When my hunger and misery

Won't help to solve my lack of clear choices.

I can only hope for a find who can

Complete me the way I need.

It might take over a year, or two, or

Ten, but I'll get there. You'll see.

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