She believed that e-mail
wouldn’t do
When abandoning a lover.
Licked that envelope with a happy smile,
My replacement right above her.
She swore a lifetime
to me,
But that lasted sixty years.
She looks the same as then;
All I have is Synthe-Beer.
I can’t go on without her—
Can’t remember life alone.
We lived each day together
Before nanobots were known.
Now she’s with an asteroid miner,
Half-time the speed of light.
Living out her first time forever,
Sent that letter out of spite.
I feel her presence
upon it,
Her saliva sealed our doom.
Even an android girlfriend
Couldn’t fill our empty room.
I missed everything
about my wife,
Her touch, her feel, her taste.
But thanks to how she sent that letter
I can have that girl replaced.
