Cabaret of Love
>︎︎︎ Nikolay Shargorodsky
︎ NOV 3, 2021
I fled the
states when romance died,
thrust old and young pups from my lap,
bruised into the form and fitness of the pride.
The queer sensation of a tongue
lapping sweat woke me from my work.
Dust blew to and from territorial nights.
I shake in my bed like a cabaret star
who has no ego as she dies, dies, dies.
The man who woke me becomes a wolf,
and the shaman screams “this life was no good!”
thrust old and young pups from my lap,
bruised into the form and fitness of the pride.
The queer sensation of a tongue
lapping sweat woke me from my work.
Dust blew to and from territorial nights.
I shake in my bed like a cabaret star
who has no ego as she dies, dies, dies.
The man who woke me becomes a wolf,
and the shaman screams “this life was no good!”
Nikolay Shargorodsky is a Research Technician living in Brooklyn, NY. His poetry has appeared in the McGill Daily and his play The Telegram was performed by the Douglas Theatre Company at McGill University.