Aphelion Issue 292, Volume 28
March 2024
 
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What Dracula is About

by Jean Jones


Dracula is about addiction, and Dracula is a drug dealer-
The thirst for blood is heroin addiction and Dracula's wives
because of their addiction
sell their bodies
and are now prostitutes
and Dracula gets new wives
by introducing heroin into their veins-
We now call that human trafficking-
In the 19th century in Victorian England,
this was how poor women in England made their money-
Hence the popularity of the book Dracula-
Freud would have agreed-
All those fluids blending together,
mouth and tongue kissing flesh.


© 2020 Jean Jones

Jean Jones teaches English as a Second Language Basic Skills for Cape Fear Community College. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio and has a book of poems available on Amazon.com entitled Beyond Good and Evil. He has had poems published in Aphelion as well as Horror Zine online.

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