not all Russians are spies;
some Russians are broke;
take Ivan the poet; hangs out
in bars on an extended tab;
his buddy Igor is a novelist
who works as a pornographer
cranking out quick digital
videos of girls doing filthy &
disgusting things that he writes
about in novels that he sells
to small presses that sell them
on the subway; Ivan's poetry
is renowned but unread; they
both sleep w/ Sonya who's so
schizophrenic she doesn't know
it; Sonya's family has money
although she doesn't talk about
them although they secretly
support her and her writer boyfriends;
her father is an avid UFO watcher 
& keeps meticulous records of all 
he has seen; he's former KGB
& her mother is in an asylum
in Siberia; not all Russians are
spies; some Russians are broke