FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE

Lick the salty
red liquid
drawn from my
existential vagina.
Take your finger
and paint my body
as rouge as the
edges of
Raskolnikov’s axe.
Overflow me like the
newly-melted Neva
and make me howl
like the packs of
stray dogs in
the alleyways off
of Nevsky Prospekt. I’m
hungry for your
juicy, sirloin steak
and willing to dig with
my paws to get to it.
Pavlov is ringing
the bell, and I
want my reward.

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Biography

Morgan Boyer is the author of “The Serotonin Cradle” (Finishing Line Press, 2018).