by Ruida Ding

Lay me down

Sumptuous covers, queen size bed

Scrumptious lover, cheeks brick-red

Pull me closer

You’ve won it

Online blog Epistemology

Cocktail bar Ethnography

Received your Master of Art and Science in Anthropology

A thousand names in your biography

Overqualified to explore my Biology

Desires orchestrated

Intimacy engineered

Don Giovanni

you rehearse daily

The well of thirst

overflows with angst

A recipe of insatiable void

paid in full with the soul

A modern Sisyphus

ticking off his to-do list

Here I am,

complicit in my capitulation

Roguelike with no destination

An abyss

of desire so deep

of despair so dark

You can’t resist but

Pick me up