Coloniam Somnia

Bianca Alu-Marr

The colony buzzed with emotion,

         as the fake rain misted down on my face.

  I wish I had enough declats to get some food,

        But instead I take comfort in my pristine emptiness,

         besides the beer Hoxtu gave me for kissing him.

 I’m buzzed because nothing is in my stomach

       ‘cept beer and youth,

          and the danger of a city teeming with ugly aliens.

My arm is bumpy and green just as it should be,

        but I look around and all I see is

          a sea of pink and brown anymore.

Those aliens stink up the city with their

        hairless bizarre skin

          and giant eyes.

I weave and bob into them delighting in

       the cries of surprise and fear.

My three sturdy legs, bowing under the weight

          of life.

Maybe tomorrow I’ll gorbort my hair and

       wash my long spelets.

But today I’m dirty and special,

       the smell of native flesh,

Bianca Alu-Marr is an emerging (in the publication world), writer who's been passionate about writing in many different genres for most of her life. She is the author and co-plotter of a comic book about a Comic Book shop in outer space called, “The Comicverse,” that has sci-fi, romance, comedy and drama. She also has a piece about a lonely dragon titled, “The Forgotten,” who’s lost her people (or so she thought), being published in Carmina Magazine in March.