My Robot Is Pregnant theme song!

They don’t call it “making out” in the Philippines, it’s “lips to lips”. When you lay down next to your lover and she has removed her helmet and the pressurized suit you are lips to lips in the cockpit while electric charges jeopardize the mission. Whenever you are lips to lips there are only two people in the world but what about in space? How much more important is it now to circle a mouth with the tip of your tongue?

The small corners of your lover, the teeth that make the flesh give, small goosebumps arise on your arms and spandex “long underwear” that is laced with thin plastic tubes through which cool water flows is down around your ankles.

The Lower Torso Assembly is a single unit, which includes knees and ankles, boots and lower waist. A metal connect ring facilitates its fitting. It is in a rumpled pile drifting past you.

Lips and fingertips lead the way up and down the body, kiss here, touch there, everything moves in such small circles, hips and shoulders even as the two want to connect, bodies are aligning.

EMU Electrical Harness is a set of communications wires and bio instruments worn by the astronaut inside the suit. It connects in the suit’s backpack. You don’t fucking care as readouts blink on and off and instruments chatter in the darkness of space. It helps in communication and monitors the astronaut’s vital signs such as respiration rate, heart rate and temperature but by now you have come into her and you hold it inside her as she holds you inside her and you are lips to lips and fingertips are pressing so hard into flesh the skin will leave their trace for a moment when the release comes.

They call it lips to lips in the Philippines. You’ve never done it in space, so you can’t give it a name.

(drawing by Sonja Lueschen courtesy of her newest ‘zine, “Social Studies”)
(spacesuit information courtesy of space travel guide)