Leather Interiors That Used To Moo by Ryan Quinn Flanagan

They were taking many pictures of her
in a blow up pool full of goats’ blood
and she said it was for her portfolio
then she took a dead chicken
and rubbed it between her legs
like towelling off
her big break she promised, what was the big deal?
lick a few dismembered cow heads in a bikini
to get ahead
and I thought of that new car smell
of leather interiors that used to moo
as the cameraman told me to get out
of his shots
while the director played
with his lights
and more animals died for art
then artists
for once.

Ryan Quinn Flanagan presently resides in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with an acute case of cabin fever after another long Canadian winter. He dreams of warm places and warmer women.