stimulants a greek dialogue

Poetry
Written By Simon Ravenscroft (he/him)

Socrates says to Phaedrus

Phaedrus

love 

is

truth and reality

Love will 

give 

your 

soul 

wings.

Phaedrus replies

Socrates

so

love

is

like the energy drink

Red 

Bull?


Socrates sighs.


Lysias overhears

notes all this down

checks his watch

and goes in search of a vending machine.

Simon Ravenscroft (he/him)

Simon Ravenscroft lives in Cambridge, England. He is a Fellow of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge, where he teaches and writes. His work has recently appeared, or will soon, in Meniscus, Trampoline, Red Ogre Review, Swifts & Slows, Ranger Magazine, and Stone Poetry Quarterly, among other places.

https://twitter.com/simonravensgoat
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