Watching Dracula With Philip Glass

Watching Dracula
With Philip Glass
Playing in the background,
It dawns on me
As Bela Lugosi
Walks through London
To dispatch a young
Flower seller,
That Dracula
Is a serial killer
With a sexual appetite
For women—
We watch amused
Because like bemused
Spectators we are fascinated,
Or we want to be like him,
As if we were watching
The Silence of the Lambs
Watching Hannibal Lector
For the first time—

Jean Jones graduated
With an MFA in Creative Writing
In poetry and has been
Published online in Aphelion Webzine
And Medusas Kitchen

Find more by Jean Jones in the Author Index.