alone on a rock more barren
than the one he'd left behind

all he ever wanted was snoo-
& he got all of space:      [-] |

there were no machines
& he was   buried under

breathing through the  small hole  - 
[that didn't ****
the atmosphere out of the             
hollow stone ball];
           he had only his female                      tapeworm            
                           for company, &    
she didn't talk:
slimy creature undulating like an         elongated
slippery labial tube that would swallow
& engulf him & shiver          w/ pulsing                            
                                lust throughout
its long body &         he was inside      
& outside of it;
the thing was in & out of him -
soon, the thing was depositing (                      )
                eggs under his skin [&      
they  were soonafter
                            a family]