Flirting with Astronauts

By Angela Heiser

 

you both know

you’re just another skirt

he’s chasin’

protected from the paparazzi

at a Cocoa Beach hotel

slinging back cocktails

boats in swimming pools

frat boy antics

permitted because these guys

are just so darn exceptional

and bored when their hands are off

the throttle so they grasp at quick cars,

juvenile pranks, and at you

 

 

Angela Heiser lives near Raleigh. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Red Mud Review and County Lines. Her poem “Cornhusker” was awarded the Poetry Genre Winner for the 2024-2025 issue of The Red Mud Review. She is an alum of Writers in Paradise and reads for Abode Press, Wildscape and Libre Lit. 

 

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