Open Moment

 

Over by the door shell-suited layabouts
Catcalled the swanky clientele;
Strange signals from flirty fashionistas
In far out drag, voyeuristic, futuristic,
It was like some film noir melodrama
Glittering lights and a roving spot
She took the stage with a sequined flourish
All hot hair, sparkly nails and
Up line coffee charisma.
Displaced neo-nihilist blues warped into
A screw-loose spectacular
Whammo! Bammo! Thank You Mambo!
Number, infrequent and moderate violence,
PG Certificate unsuitable for children.
Radical chicanery:
The lippy bootylicious beautician
With a smokey eye look,
And a string bikini,
Nostalgic for the age of silent cinema
That open moment when there were no
Swinging soundtracks, Psych or Garage,
Enjoyed a foxy line in booze and bop.
While a hotel receptionist at a corner table
Pouted longingly at her wild child escort
A phantom picked up earlier on the Metro,
A sleazy crooner in a stained tuxedo
Well, yes, actually!
Ignoring her obligatory dirt-poor upbringing
The orchestra swung into another cool strip-o-rama
Jazz head chronic turbo hand-held number
On easy-roll locking castors.
And another thing
The Divine Touch Unisex Salon
Is where it’s at baby. On-trend?
Ask our experts.

This is a frozen waste of emotional destitution
Dark, sordid backstreets,
Pulses of rain,
Cheesy nights out,
Crosswords and puzzles off the menu,
Kaleidoscopic montage of interior shots
Mirrors, chrome, lost time
Half asleep in the early hours
Resplendent in a box-pleat maxi
And peep toe heels
She re-writes the art of the real as
An Open Moment.
Thank you.

illus: A Solitary Dream, 2002

This Is Inner Space

...the concept of Tau... the world of inter-atom... 

It was an area of  non-logic which only grudgingly conceded a place to man and his fallibilities.

Caught in a twilight world somewhere between between death and the edge of life, they hung at the very fringes of endurance in a state of mental and physical chaos.  

- Colin Kapp
Lambda 1 New Worlds Science Fiction, December 1962

illus: This Is Inner Space (Lambda 1), 2014

Metropolitain

 

- il y a des princesses, et, ci tu n'es pas trop accable, l'etude des astres, - le ciel.

- there are princesses, and if you're not too freaked out, the study of the stars - the sky.

- Arthur Rimbaud Metropolitain:  Les Illuminations (1886)

illus: Metropolitain, 2002

Poetry & Prose Publications 2020-2025

 

Poetry & Prose Publications 2020-2025
Includes Prose Poems and Short Fiction from The Other Side of Town to Diverted Traffic 

And all the rest is literature - Verlaine

The Inner Crucible (That Last Evening), International Times Aug 2020
Voices Other and Voices Over, International Times Dec 2020
And Yet… Subtopian Materialism, International Times Feb 2020
Beyond Off Limits, International Times Feb 2020
Nowhere Junction, International Times Jan 2020
Deathmasques I The Poet, International Times Jul 2020
In the Soft State Zone (Debris), International Times Jul 2020
The Agent Of Destruction, International Times Jun 2020
Unknown Zone II, International Times Jun 2020
The Other Side of Town, International Times Mar 2020
Somewhere Off Limits, International Times May 2020
We Vampires, International Times May 2020
Deathmasques VI Silence, International Times Nov 2020
Mute Witness, International Times Nov 2020
Deathmasques IV Dream of Stone, International Times Oct 2020
Deathmasques V The Renegade (Into The Abyss), International Times Oct 2020
Other Voices Call Us, International Times Oct 2020
Ultima, International Times Oct 2020
Deathmasques II No More Beauty, International Times Sept 2020
Deathmasques III In the Palace of the Sphinx (The Supplicant), International Times Sept 2020
Next Transit, Stride Magazine Jun 2020
Next Transit (Remix), Stride Magazine Jun 2020
Echoes Of Desire, Stride Magazine Oct 2020
One False Move, Stride Magazine Oct 2020
This New Zero, Stride Magazine Oct 2020
Echoes Of Desire, Awen Issue 114 Nov 2021, Atlantean Publishing
The Uncertainty Of Parks, International Times Apr 2021
Havengore V The Masque, International Times Aug 2021
Quit This Dying Forest of Pylons, International Times Aug 2021
Another Quiet Night In The Metropolis, International Times Dec 2021
Uncanny Valley, International Times Dec 2021
Alien Abductions, International Times Feb 2021
Black Light, International Times Feb 2021
Disconnected Tangents, International Times Feb 2021
Fragment The Coffee Bar, International Times Jan 2021
The Vision Of Morgan Le Fay, International Times Jan 2021
Against The World, International Times Jul 2021
Back Into The Night, International Times Jun 2021
Dodgy Electrics, International Times Jun 2021
Evidence of Drift (Strange Reflections I), International Times Jun 2021
Alien Autopsy, International Times Mar 2021
The Window Of Fear (The Intervening Years), International Times Mar 2021
Dream Fractals I, International Times May 2021
Dream Fractals II (The Wave Function Of All Dreams), International Times May 2021
Sing Back The Symbols, International Times May 2021
The Atom Smasher Of Dreams, International Times May 2021
Alchemy Of The Mirage, International Times Nov 2021
Other Distractions (Strange Reflections II), International Times Nov 2021
Neon Aeon, International Times Oct 2021
Omega Lightning, International Times Oct 2021
The Black Rooms, International Times Sep 2021
The Poet Destroyed By Fire, International Times Sep 2021
The Agent Of Destruction, Monomyth Vol 21.3 Issue 75 Dec 2021, Atlantean Publishing
Dark Tower Horizon, The Dark Tower Volume 8 Doomfall, Atlantean Publishing, 2021
Get Unreal (This Means You), Argotist Online Poetry May 2022
Somewhere Off Limits, Argotist Online Poetry May 2022
Too Much Like Real Life, Argotist Online Poetry May 2022
Life Into Shape, Monomyth 22.2 Issue 77 Dec 2022
Dream Of Aldebaran, International Times Aug 2022
Angel Pictures, International Times Feb 2022
Unholy Communion, International Times Feb 2022
Filigree Paintings Explode, International Times Jan 2022
No Man's Land (Burn The Movie I Used To Know), International Times Jan 2022
Dream Vortex, International Times May 2022
Borderlands Of The World, International Times Oct 2022
Goofy Movie, International Times Oct 2022
Subtopia Anything, International Times Sep 2022
Chance of Thunder, Stride Magazine 16 Jan 2023
Chance of Thunder, Poetfreak Apr 2023
Diverted Traffic, International Times Feb 2023
Diverted Traffic, Poetfreak Apr 2023
Dream It Now, Poetfreak Apr 2023
Dream Story or Whatever, International Times Apr 2023
Dream Story or Whatever, Poetfreak Apr 2023
Go For It, Podetfreak Apr 2023
Goofy Movie, Poetfreak Apr 2023
Here and Now, Poetfreak Apr 2023
Our Darkest Secret, Poetfreak Apr 2023
Spectral Lines, Poetfreak Apr 2023
There Are Many Roads To Space, International Times Apr 2023
Watch Your Step, Poetfreak Apr 2023
Dream It Now I This Perfect Storm, International Times May 2023
Our Darkest Secret, International Times May 2023
Dream It Now II From Nowhere Junction, International Times Jun 2023
Go For It, International Times Jul 2023
The Here And Now, International Times Sept 2023
Freak Doubt (Watch Your Step), International Times Sept 2023
Boo Galaxy, International Times Dec 2023
Spectral Lines, International Times Dec 2023
The Rogue Astronomer, International Times Jan 2024
Echo The Clouds, International Times Feb 2024
Underground Movie, International Times Feb 2024
In The Naked City, International Times Mar 2024
The Quantum Signature, International Times Mar 2024
The Secret Agent, International Times Mar 2024
A Futuristic Beauty, International Times Apr 2024
That Night of Nights, International Times Apr 2024
Where We Are Now, International Times Apr 2024
Chance of Thunder, International Times May 2024
Naked Distraction, International Times May 2024
Dream It Now, International Times Jun 2024
The Obscure Nature of Turbulence, International Times Jul 2024
Destination Gorgeous, International Times Aug 2024
Undisclosed Moment, International Times Sept 2024
You've Got To Feel It (To Believe It), International Times Jan 2025

Illus: The Other Side of Town, International Times, Mar 2020

Artwork Publications 2011-2025

 

Artwork Publications 2011-2025

Chance Encounter I, Neon Highway Issue 21 Nov 2011
Luminous Shadow II, Neon Highway Issue 21 Nov 2011
Maybe Tomorrow, Neon Highway Issue 21 Nov 2011
While She Waits, Neon Highway Issue 21 Nov 2011
In The Mirror My Dream, Neon Highway Issue 21 Nov 2011 [cover art]
Absolute Equinox II, Sleep Paralysis (The Visitors) [cover art], Visitors From Far Off, 2011
Azimuth II (From This Star), Sweet Nothings [cover art], Atlantean Publishing, 2011
The Mistress Of The Cathedrals, The Bards Issue 26 DS Davidson Love and Hate… [cover art], Atlantean Publishing, 2011
Visionary Head III, The Bards Issue 28 Zack Samuel Dusk Chorus [cover art], Atlantean Publishing, 2011
Tower Of Silence (Beyond The Exosphere I), The Tears Of Lot-49, Atlantean Publishing, 2011
Trace Element II, Fractured Moods 1 Haunted Astral [cover art], Atlantean Publishing, 2012
Lifelike Figure (Walk Me Home), Fractured Moods 2 Beautiful Chaos, Atlantean Publishing, 2012
The Angel Metonymy , Fractured Moods 2 Beautiful Chaos [cover art], Atlantean Publishing, 2012
Ultima W7495E, from Outside [cover art], Argotist E Books, 2012
Transition To Elsewhere, Yellow Leaves 1 D J Tyrer Yellow Dresses [cover art] , Atlantean Publishing, 2012
Sturm Und Drang I, Ragdoll At The Axis Of The Dust-To-Dust Storm [cover art], Atlantean Publishing, 2013
Ghost Elements I Of This We Must, Stride Magazine Nov 2013
Ghost Elements II This Is Not Here, Stride Magazine Nov 2013
Ghost Elements III And This Appears, Stride Magazine Nov 2013
Ghost Elements IV See Your Vision, Stride Magazine Nov 2013
Le Grand Grimoire II, Xothic Sathlattae The First Sathlatta by Phillip A Ellis [cover art], Atlantean Publishing, 2013
The View From Nowhere II, Xothic Sathlattae The Fourth Sathlatta by Don Webb [cover art], Atlantean Publishing, 2013
Primal Scene Monster, Xothic Sathlattae The Second Sathlatta Frederick J Mayer [cover art], Atlantean Publishing, 2013
Fallen Angel, Yellow Leaves 4 D S Davidson A Terrible Thing [cover art], Atlantean Publishing, 2013
Cometographia I, Yellow Leaves 5 Don Webb [cover art], Atlantean Publishing, 2013
Edge Of Zone, Yellow Leaves 6 Neal Wilgus Yellow Dreams [cover art], Atlantean Publishing, 2013
The Secret City, Esophagus Writ [cover art], KFS Press, 2014
Demogorgon, Grave Implications, Detrimental Books, 2014
Echoes Of Ambiguity, Grave Implications, Detrimental Books, 2014
Ghost Elements I Of This We Must, Grave Implications, Detrimental Books, 2014
Ghost Elements II This Is Not Here, Grave Implications, Detrimental Books, 2014
Ghost Elements III And This Appears, Grave Implications, Detrimental Books, 2014
Ghost Elements IV See Your Vision, Grave Implications, Detrimental Books, 2014
The Secret City, Grave Implications, Detrimental Books, 2014
The Thing In The Car Park, Grave Implications, Detrimental Books, 2014
The Secret City, Grave Implications [cover art], Detrimental Books, 2014
The Thing In The Car Park, Grave Implications [cover art], Detrimental Books, 2014
Automatic Door, The Bards Issue 37 Ian Clarke [cover art], Atlantean Publishing, 2014
Horizon Of Fear, WiTH 22 [cover art], Falmouth University, 2014
The Entrance To Hell, International Times Apr 2015
Esoteric Annunciation, International Times Dec 2015
Project Delta, International Times Feb 2015
The Old Enemy, International Times Feb 2015
Dangerous Territory, International Times Mar 2015
Psychonaut I, International Times Mar 2015
The Wall of Silence, International Times Mar 2015
They Are Coming, International Times Mar 2015
Underground Dreams, International Times Mar 2015
Zodiac Charms, International Times Mar 2015
Always Dreaming Alone, International Times Mar 2015
Now Or Never, International Times May 2015
Psychonaut II, International Times Oct 2015
Not Life As We Know It , Poetry and Paint Future, Masoliver, 2015
The Other Element, Poetry and Paint Future, Masoliver, 2015
They Are Ready (Dodgy Electrics), Poetry and Paint Future, Masoliver, 2015
This Is Inner Space (Lambda I), Poetry and Paint Future, Masoliver, 2015
Guardian Angel, Stride Magazine Nov 2015
Never Say Never, Stride Magazine Nov 2015

They Are Here, Stride Magazine Nov 2015
This Is Outer Space, Stride Magazine Nov 2015
Displaced Persona, The Bards issue 38 Bryn Fortey Borrowed Lines [cover art], Atlantean Publishing 2015
Psychonaut II, The Silence Inside [cover art], Doubtful Books, 2015
Psychonaut II, X-Peri 24 Oct 2015
Not Life As We Know It , X-Peri 27 Sept 2015
Summer Of Scandal, X-Peri 3 Nov 2015
Let's Shake Art, X-Peri 30 Dec 2015
Yes We Are Strangers, Bard Issue 161 2016 [cover art], Atlantean Publishing, 2016
Psychonaut I, Deviant Art Jan 2016
The Wall of Silence, Deviant Art Jan 2016
Beyond Writing, Deviant Art Mar 2016
One Gothic Night, Deviant Art Mar 2016
A Visionary Being, Inner Space Ghost Machine, Analogue Flashback Books, 2016
Aethyr of Cruelty, Inner Space Ghost Machine, Analogue Flashback Books, 2016
Indeterminate Figure I, Inner Space Ghost Machine, Analogue Flashback Books, 2016
Spirit of The Age, Inner Space Ghost Machine, Analogue Flashback Books, 2016
Welcome To The Underworld, Inner Space Ghost Machine, Analogue Flashback Books, 2016
Dark Zone Nebula II, International Times Aug 2016
Agony Traces, International Times Feb 2016
Aladdin Sane I, International Times Jan 2016
The Prettiest Star, International Times Jan 2016
They Are Here, International Times Jan 2016
Alien Eyes IV, International Times Jul 2016
Andromeda Galaxy, International Times Jun 2016
Fear Of Mirrors, International Times Mar 2016
The End of the World, International Times May 2016
Witches' Moon (Uncanny Valley), Stride Magazine Dec 2016
Cyborg Apocalypse, Stride Magazine Jun 2016
Indeterminate Figure I, Stride Magazine Sept 2016

Bishop Honorius, The Gospel According To Archbishop Makeshift [cover art], Analogue Flashback Books, 2016
The New Aeon I, The Gospel According To Archbishop Makeshift [cover art], Analogue Flashback Books, 2016
Alien Eyes IV, X-Peri 15 May 2016
The Estranged Attractor, X-Peri 16 Jan 2016
Mysterium Fascinans, X-Peri 17 Mar 2016
One False Move, X-Peri 18 Apr 2016
Alice Asleep, X-Peri 18 Jun 2016
Martian Interlude I, X-Peri 18 Jun 2016
Inside The Silent City, X-Peri 20 Aug 2016
No Longer This Moment, X-Peri 20 Nov 2016
The Strange World Of Citizen X (Busy Evening), X-Peri 20 Oct 2016
Echoes Of Desire, X-Peri 22 Sep 2016
Chaos Is Now! X-Peri 23 Feb 2016
New Psychic Action (Cyborg Connection), X-Peri 24 Jul 2016
All Other Worlds (Metropolitan), Bard Issue 164 2017 [cover art], Atlantean Publishing,
Esoteric Annunciation, Dear Mary, Shearsman Books, 2017
Historia Abscondita, International Times Mar 2017
Maybe Tomorrow, International Times Mar 2017
Seeing Many Worlds, International Times Mar 2017
We Cannot Talk About This, International Times Mar 2017
The Way Of All Flesh II Body And Soul, Monomyth Vol 17.3 Issue 63 2017 [cover art], Atlantean Publishing, 2017
A Solitary Dream, Open Moments [cover art], Argotist E Books, 2017
Time Travellers (The Trip), Stride Magazine Jun 2017
Time And Rebirth, Stride Magazine Oct 2017
The Coming Darkness, The Co-ordinates Of Doubt [cover art], KFS Press, 2017
The Edge of Forever, X-Peri 18 May 2017
Mirror This World, X-Peri 22 Mar 2017
Vespula Dreaming, X-Peri 23 Apr 2017
Altered States II, X-Peri 23 Jan 2017
Edge of Zone II, X-Peri 23 Sep 2017
Torrid Zone (Not So Far), X-Peri 24 Feb 2017
False Goddess, X-Peri 26 Jun 2017
Self Portrait in 1976, Bard Issue 172 2018 [cover art], Atlantean Publishing,
Dream Of Akhenaten, Bard Issue 174 2018 [cover art], Atlantean Publishing,
Astral singularity II, Bard Issue 175 2018 [cover art], Atlantean Publishing,
Unquiet Interior, Bard Issue 176 2018 [cover art], Atlantean Publishing,
Not Like You II, International Times Aug 2018
Get Unreal, International Times Jan 2018
Dream Ticket (Get Your Dream Ticket), International Times Mar 2018
Taboo Fantasy, International Times May 2018, International Times,
Between Darkness And Light, Stride Magazine Apr 2018
The Way Of All Flesh II Body And Soul, Voices of War [cover art], Atlantean Publishing, 2018
Aethyr Of The Abyss, Codex Kaiju (Cardinal Cox) [cover art], Atlantean Publishing, 2019
Leonardo’s Wall I, Monomyth Vol 19.2 Issue 68 2019 [cover art], Atlantean Publishing,
Temporal Parapraxis I, Monomyth Vol 19.3 Issue 69 2019 [cover art], Atlantean Publishing,
Bride III, The Bards Issue 43 Ashley Dioses Beneath Her Spell [cover art] , Atlantean Publishing, 2019
Between Darkness And Light, Yellow Leaves #11 D J Tyrer Rock Opera [cover art], Atlantean Publishing, 2019
Psychic Citadel, Bard Issue 190 2020 [cover art], Atlantean Publishing,
The Inner Crucible, International Times Aug 2020
Not Life As We Know It, International Times Dec 2020
Beyond Off Limits, International Times Feb 2020
Subtopian Materialism, International Times Feb 2020
Nowhere Junction, International Times Jan 2020
Dark Tower Horizon (The Here And Now), International Times Jul 2020
The Poet (Dangerous Territory), International Times Jul 2020
Questions of Identity, International Times Jun 2020
Unknown Zone, International Times Jun 2020
La Flaneuse (The Other Side Of Town), International Times Mar 2020
One Gothic Night, International Times May 2020
Somewhere Off Limits, International Times May 2020
Dream Interior II, International Times Nov 2020
This Fallen World, International Times Nov 2020
In The Abyss, International Times Oct 2020
In This The Mystery, International Times Oct 2020
The Debris Of A Poet, International Times Oct 2020
Ultima, International Times Oct 2020
In The Palace Of The Sphinx, International Times Sept 2020
Inspiration To Order, International Times Sept 2020
Fallen Angel, The Last Review The King in Yellow @ 125 [cover art], Atlantean Publishing, 2020
They Are Coming, International Times Apr 2021
Everything But The Soul, International Times Aug 2021
Transition To Elsewhere, International Times Aug 2021
Cesare The Somnambulist (Conrad Veidt), International Times Dec 2021
The Eye Of The Storm, International Times Dec 2021
Witches' Moon (Uncanny Valley), International Times Dec 2021
Behind The Scenes (At The Hotel Angela), International Times Feb 2021
This World And No Other, International Times Feb 2021
Another Strange Vision (Gaze Of The Medusa), International Times Jan 2021
Yes This Is Strange, International Times Jan 2021
Dream Of Akhenaten, International Times Jul 2021
Freak Out Situation, International Times Jul 2021
They Are Ready (Dodgy Electrics), International Times Jun 2021
This Is Mission Critical, International Times Jun 2021
This World And The Next, International Times Jun 2021
Primal Scene Monster, International Times Mar 2021
The Sleeping City, International Times Mar 2021
The Window of Fear, International Times Mar 2021
Beyond Belief, International Times May 2021
Dream Flight (Un-spiritual Flight), International Times May 2021
The Wall of Silence, International Times May 2021
Astral Fire I, International Times Nov 2021
Spear Nosed Bat Totem, International Times Nov 2021
Historia Abscondita, International Times Oct 2021
It Could Be, International Times Oct 2021
Into A World Of Shadows, International Times Sep 2021
Maybe Tomorrow, International Times Sep 2021
The Archon Of Goth, International Times Sep 2021
They Are Here, International Times Sep 2021

We Cannot Talk About This, International Times Sep 2021

One Gothic Night [cover art] Where Dead Things Dance, Atlantean Publishing 2022
Abyss Of Desire, International Times May 2022
Accidental Poetry, International Times Oct 2022   

Black Light, International Times Jul 2022

Chance Encounter I International Times Nov 2022

Chance Encounter III International Times Nov 2022  
Cthonchants I Misereatur, International Times Mar 2022
Curious Creatures, International Times Feb 2022
Distraction and Desire (Borderlands of The World), International Times Oct 2022
Dream Vortex (Montage II), International Times May 2022
Fear Of The New (Montage I), International Times Jun 2022
Fractured Muse I (detail), International Times Mar 2022

Metropolitain, International Times Oct 2022

Muse of Chaos, International Times Jul 2022
Neo-Elemental II, International Times Feb 2022
Psychic Citadel, International Times Jun 2022
Subtopia Anything IX, International Times Sep 2022
The Poetry of Abstract Space, International Times Jan 2022
The Shadow Of The Uncanny (Stargate Disaster), International Times Apr 2022
The Wrong Answer, International Times Apr 2022
Torrid Zone (Not So Far), International Times Jan 2022
Visionary Or Nothing I, International Times Jan 2022
Visions Of The Space Age, International Times Aug 2022

Watching and Waiting, [cover art] One Flew Over The Vampire's Nest, Atlantean Publishing 2023

Cyborg Apocalypse, International Times Jan 2023

In An Azure Moment (Event Horizon) International Times Jan 2023

Water Lane [acephoto], International Times Feb 2023

Diverted Traffic Accidental Poetry, International Times Feb 2023

Playing God, International Times Mar 2023

Industrial Space, International Times Apr 2023

The Balance of Probabilities, International Times Apr 2023  

Impulse Elemental, International Times May 2023

Lightning Conductor, International Times May 2023

Martian Interlude I, International Times May 2023

Cometographia II, International Times Jun 2023

Cyborg Encounter, International Times Jun 2023

Harmonic of Desire, International Times Jun 2023

Mirror This World, International Times Jul 2023

Nothing Is Sacred, International Times Jul 2023

Chimaera Lucida, International Times Aug 2023

Alternative Objects, International Times Sept 2023

Freak Doubt, International Times Sept 2023 

Truth Falsehood and Reason, International Times Sept 2023

This Is Inner Space (Lambda 1), International Times Oct 2023

Bride I [cover art], Monomyth Vol 23.1 Issue 79 Nov 2023

The Old Enemy, International Times Nov 2023

The Element of Surprise. International Times Dec 2023

Le Grand Grimoire II, [cover art] Monomyth Vol 23.3 Issue 81 Dec 2023

Unknown Zone IV, International Times Jan 2024

Ghost Elements IV See Your Vision, International Times Jan 2024

Inspiration to Order, International Times Feb 2024

Astral Fire II, International Times Feb 2024

Waiting For You II, International Times Feb 2024

Closer To The Spirit World, International Times Mar 2024

Dance Moment II, International Times Mar 2024

Estranged Interior, International Times Mar 2024

Undercover Agent, International Times Mar 2024

Gaze Of The Medusa II, International Times Apr 2024

Our Suburban Friends II, International Times Apr 2024

We Call For Futuristic Beauty, International Times Apr 2024

One False Move, International Times May 2024

The Transit of Venus, International Times May 2024

No World is Safe, International Times Jun 2024 

This Sacred Tradition, International Times Jun 2024

Epiphany IV, International Times Jul 2024

In The Garden of The Sphinx, International Times Jul 2024

Anxiety of Glamour [detail], International Times Aug 2024

Waveform Fantasy, International Times Aug 2024

Not The World (As We Know It), International Times Sept 2024

Salome's Veil III, International Times Oct 2024

Watching And Waiting, Monomyth Vol 24.2 Issue 83 [cover art] Dec 2024

Ultra In Soho (Hardcore II), International Times Jan 2025

That Zone Where II, International Times Jan 2025

Cometographia I, International Times Mar 2025

Naked Singularity (Lethally Sparkling Mirrors), International Times Mar 2025

Baudelaire in 1861 (photo by Carjat), International Times Apr 2025 

Illus: In The Beginning 2000 

The Dream Collector

1. Dragged up the stairs of accident and damage towards the broken concrete fortress, you stick your head through the broken tiles and collect what was left behind at school: dinosaurs, educational television, twigs for fingers when you couldn't write.

2. Put your dolls aside and face up to the day. Your family is a series of cut-out figures hidden in the forest and who knows what else might emerge? Always the shadow memory of moments from your past, the echoing cathedral of endurance.

3. You see faces in the rain and imagine riding a carousel horse away from the rotting and discarded now. The glass is always broken and missing, there are always steps and ladders to climb. There is no way out of everybody's dreams.

 text © Rupert M Loydell 2022

illus © A C Evans 1998

Medium Of Doubt

 

Collage, an ambiguous, complex medium of doubt, to quote Werner Spies, is an aesthetic of radical juxtaposition. In his personal treatise Beyond Painting (1947), Max Ernst, with reference to both Rimbaud, and the famous 'chance encounter' from Book 6 of Les Chants de Maldoror, defined collage as an 'alchemy of the image...' . However,the photomontage style of collage finds its origins in the work of the Berlin Dada Movement who in turn were inspired by the inadvertent imagery generated by early cinema special effects and the composite images of 'trick photography'. The term photomontage was invented by the Berlin 'monteurs', Raoul Hasmann and Hanna Hoch.

From the Freudian perspective it may be that collage exemplifies one of the two 'laws' governing the behaviour of unconscious processes or phenomena (such as dreams): the law of Condensation, or Compression, as it is also called. (The second 'law' is the law of Displacement.) Freud explained Condensation as the 'inclination to create new unities out of elements that we would certainly have kept separate in waking thought...' In 'The Enormous Face' section of his novel The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), J G Ballard refers to the 'planes of intersection' operative on 'a third level, the inner world of the psyche' where, as on other levels, such 'planes' interlock at oblique angles and where one finds 'fragments of personal myths fusing with the commercial cosmologies...'

Elsewhere is the same book Ballard asserts that images are born at the intersection of such planes, when 'some kind of valid reality begins to assert itself.'

Illustration: Psychic Citadel, 2002

Crisis Of The Object

 

Max Ernst paraphrased the classic postulate of Lautreamont as ‘the fortuitous encounter – upon a non-suitable plane – of two mutually distant realities’ (Inspiration to Order). Here, a fruit-drying machine replaces the notorious sewing machine; an analogous object (octopus) replaces the umbrella and the ‘non-suitable’ plane of the dissecting table is replaced by a desolate landscape – in the background? Maldoror. Revised from Crisis of the Object, Letter of Introduction, 1972.

Illustration: Crisis of The Object III The Ducassian Encounter, 1972

Echoes Of Desire

 

Boum! One little look, and… boum! 
Charles Trenet/Ray Goetz

Yes, it’s me! The Albionic Man,

The human junkyard… now,

I have to scribble a few last words…



Allright darlin?

The last transit van from Venus arrived

At The Electric Laser Clinic, no problem.

Here we go again – no signal, and…boum!

Easy way trips in slow motion,

Echoes of desire and mod girls on scooters

Refresh your everyday revolution.

Storm the town hall, body and soul, baby.



We live in a world of shadows

But, encased in zodiac scaffolding,

She doesn’t care about life or anything.

Meanwhile, here at Thermo-Station Junction,

A full moon is obscured by cloud,

Banishing memories of extreme caution.

Her bare midriff is a diversion route in free-fall.

Café, gallery, theatre – stay connected, and… boum!



I wrote a new chapter, but did you notice?

A view of blue sky is an abrupt change in feel.

The studio is here – Allright sweetie?

Scary claims; pull handle, push door.

Spark outrage with this strange equipment.

Solutions without boundaries a speciality, and… boum!

Forget The Albionic Man, that backless loafer,

With his illegible scribbles.



We live in a world of shadows.

But she doesn’t care.

No, really… she doesn’t care,


She doesn’t care at all.

Not at all.

illus: The Sky Is Silent (Echoes of Desire), 2017  


 

A Very Decadent Idea

In The Painter of Modern Life Baudelaire asserted that ‘sublime thought’ is associated with a neural phenomenon – a ‘nervous impulse’. The notion of such an impulse (a reverberation in the cerebral cortex) displaces the basis of aesthetic response from the metaphysical to the biological – a very ‘decadent’ idea. Why?  

Because the specific form of Aestheticism derived from this proposition treated ‘Beauty’ solely as a stimulus of the nerves – thus art need only address the nervous system. It can, in pursuit of psycho-physical stimulation, safely ignore deadly serious didactics, social polemics and the idle chatter of metaphysics.

Illus: Anxiety of Glamour, 2002 (detail)

 

When The Lights Go Out

 

Implicit in the idea of ‘archetypes’ is the possibility of ambivalence, the bipolarity of light and dark – also, there is the possibility of mortality, for archetypal influences can wax and wane or ebb and flow, like tidal forces, like everything in nature.

If the world is an imperfect place, then the archetypes are correspondingly imperfect (natural): it is unrealistic to assume, like Plato, when he devised his scheme of ‘ideas’, that the archetypal world is a transcendent sphere of ultimate, supreme perfection. It is necessary to criticize this Platonic delusion, crucial to expose this mystique of ‘perfection’ and purity. But, even in a secular society, there will be a reluctance to deconstruct any proposition of this kind because humanity is so desperate to escape the curse of endurance. Any straw in the wind, any ‘insight’ confirming the universe we know as ‘fallen’, or a pale reflection of a better, happier place beyond suffering and degeneration, becomes more precious than holy writ and believed even more tenaciously.

The shadows on the wall of our cosey, little cave are our own ‘ideas’ – shallow and superficial intellectual speculations, ideological snares and distractions, nothing more – we are the sole occupants. When the cave is blocked by an avalanche, what then? What happens when the lights go out?

Illus: The Rattlesnake Pit Organ, 2005

Poetic Neo-Puritanism

 Arriere la muse academique! Je n’ai que faire de cette vielle begueule. – Baudelaire 

Anti-Romanticism is a current orthodoxy among ‘progressive’ or ‘innovative’ poets today. So-called ‘innovative poetry’ – a kind of Anglicised literary fashion derived from Black Mountain style Projective Verse and ‘Language Poetry’ – ascribes an ethical value to approved technicalities. ‘Ethical openness’ is defined against the ‘paradigm’ (watch out for that give-away buzzword) of ‘romantic’ self-expression; ‘self-expression’ is the deadliest sin for  neo-puritans. The technicalities of ‘innovative’ poetry are a rhetorical box of tricks, devices for identikit, academic ‘whiz-bang’ writing and, furthermore  – do not be deceived – there is a sinister pattern here – the inherent totalitarianism of the English intelligentsia remains the same threat to freedom today as in the previous mid-century. Then the same coteries of ‘fellow travellers’ issued diatribes against ‘nineteenth century liberalism’ or ‘bourgeois individualism’ and used the term ‘romantic’ as a vague insult, with connotations of  ‘ivory tower’ escapism and sentimentality. ‘Self-expression’ and ‘individualism’ are both negative terms in this discourse, a discourse that seeks to discredit the very basis of creativity itself – the individual imagination.

Nothing much has changed, except that the collapse of the Soviet Union means that these Stalinists are reverting to their Puritan roots; an essentially reactionary, moralistic obsession with selflessness and aesthetic abstraction. For some reason one is reminded of stories told about the Donatists, early Christian fanatics who invaded churches and threw buckets of whitewash over all the decorations and brightly coloured representational murals.

Illus: Freedom Express, 2005

In The Zone

 

IN THE ZONE

 

Zone in
     you can hear a clock tick
Zone out
     wind blows away the silence
Zone in
     that's our cat snoring
Zone out
     I'm sleepless tonight
 
Zone in
     nightmares & dark dreams
Zone out
     thought as a kind of magic
Zone in
      incomprehension & confusion
Zone out
     the lure of spatial boundaries
 
Zone in
     entanglements & contradictions
Zone out
     stories set in other times
Zone in
     colour, movement, space & line
Zone out
     the consequence of landscape
 
Zone in
     growing disconnection
Zone out
      ghosts at the heart of each atom
Zone in
     indistinct shapes & smells
Zone out
     ripples across a pond
 
 
   © Rupert M Loydell

illus: Ghost Elements I: Of This We Must (RML/ACE)

 

 

Take It Or Leave It

 

TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT

 

from/for A.C. Evans

 

Salvation. Oh, yes, I know I am a spiritual flaneur,
a damned poet and (eye roll) a 'lost poet' and
(eye roll) a 'lost soul'. To be damned is to be modern,
absolutely human once and for all. The human condition
evolves too fast yet the horizon of change is fear,
and the closer we are to the horizon the less we care
about rhyme or reason: blank verse for blank reason.
 

And that is why traditional models of perfectibility
or divine purpose can be seen as a promethean affront
to the established order or as a way of repossessing everything
stolen from us by the Enchanter, a neo-shamanistic antithesis
of enlightenment and salvation. I know the difference between
fact and fiction, between sleep and waking, between dream
and reality, between consciousness and the unconscious, 

between inner and outer space. It is too late to get unreal,
grounding poetic practice in the ontological matrix
dissociates poetry from cultural-linguistic literary discourse,
from the dreary, enervating world of fake self-referential
experimentalists obsessed with all those innate processes
of inner integration and perspective. The poem itself appears
as a by-product of therapy, propaganda or entertainment. 

As I penetrate the archaic heritage and the archetypal forest
of symbols, it is the compulsive activity of inspiration,
the process of self-discovery, that is the prime factor:
it is this that dissolves those artificial barriers between
the enigmatic sphinx and the ancient alchemists. Beauty
is invoked by the transformation of the material of creation;
the essence of my poetic practice is active imagination.

Only language remains. Everything depends on language.
Being is literally indefinable in extra-linguistic terms,
my creativity is an innate psycho-active phenomenon.
I write certain words across blank pages of empty space,
consign metaphysics to oblivion. What has this to do with
oblivion? What has this to do with me? Everything.
The closer we are to the horizon the less we care.

   © Rupert M Loydell

illus: Ghost Elements IV: See Your Vision (RML/ACE)

 

The Other Side of Town

 

Go on, get out there; pretend you're some kind of psychonaut or just a flaneur – navigate this urban phantasmagoria from the sublime to the ridiculous. Only travel by train on busy commuter lines, or by very frequent buses (boost under flap). Immerse yourself in the Freak Show Scene, search in vain for the burlesque hurly burly while spotting as many slips, parapraxes and howlers as you can. Scan the tabloids for the tears and fears, for the outrages and scandals; for heart-breaking testimony, for a community looking for answers; for Huge Questions, the Unfolding Drama and New Challenges. This is where the magic happens – you’re good to go! (high fives) Hang out at stations, department stores, supermarkets, shopping malls, arcades and counter-serv coffee shops. Skulk in bookshops; go to squares and – not very often – go to parks. Talk to strangers. Cultivate micro-encounters and tremulous moments; try to ignore the screeching power tools, the sustained, high-pitched warbling car alarms, the rattling, clanking skip lorry, the ear-splitting sirens and the sudden clunking manhole covers. Say hello to the frail Big Issue girl with a black eye. Note the nuances of vernacular dress-codes, check out the styles of OP (Ordinary People); the mobile gasbaggers, the B3s (bulky beardy blokes), the fidgeting Knee-Jigglers, the macho Skull-Shavers, the semi-Skull Shavers, the Pony Tails, the Hipsters, the Chattering Classes, the Spluttering Classes and the bien-pensant Moral Vigilantes looking for scapegoats. Glance suspiciously at the vaping loiterer by the ATM… and what about that funny guy in the green, plaid, baggy, trews dashing across the road to the convenience store? Dodge the pavement velo-philiacs, the helmeted Mamils in stretchy skin-tight shorts (on the way to a group Meet-Eat-Cleat-Repeat), that guy riding an e-scooter on one leg, and the erratic,speeding drama queen on a skateboard. Avoid traffic cones, potholes, scaffolding, dockless e-bikes, joggers, flyering chuggers, urban back-packers, queue-jumpers, doggy-day-care dog-walkers, bus-stop smokers (fags on the go) and men-in-shorts with luminous socks. Oh, by the way, there are numerous beard styles around now, including, of course, the hirsute Victorian patriarch or OT Prophet, the Haddock, the Birdseye (aka the Uncle Albert) and the Pugwash. Beards are just the thing for blokish blokes, particularly for the B3s. Look out of the window, and what do you see? If you've got it, flaunt it!

But, next, watch out for all those buggy-mums and try to ignore the superdad with five kids known as You Guys; then there’s the cheeky little girl who says her sister’s got manky grommets; there are toddlers covered in bling and rowdy brats from Nappy Valley. Leer at the Foxy Totty lookin’ hella cool and the gum-chewing steampunk Goth-girl in studded faux leather ankle boots and danger zone, Big-O round necklace collar spike choker (Rock my switch, baby); ogle their panty lines, wedges, midriffs and cleavages (Phwoar, know wot I mean, bruv?). Remember, our quirky, fey barista is a smoothie operator into Stranger Things. Now, gasp at that ankle-length, black maxi-coat with vent as une passante passes by in a hurry.

Note the dress of Everyday; the fishtail parka, the anorak, the windcheater, the reefer, the bomber, the puffer (long or short, with sleeves or sleeveless, with fur lined hood), the reverse baseball cap, the occasional angora beret, or retro aviator flying helmet, the fur trapper and the ubiquitous unisex beanie (simple cuffed, tall cuffed, slouchy, Trawler, Docker, rib-knit, chunky cable-knit, with pom-pom or without, double pom-pom, plain or herringbone geo-patterned, with logo, place-name or designer label); the military look (this is the front line), the slim-fit skinny drainpipes, the sporty T&T (tracksuit and trainers) types, the hard-at-work Hi Viz brigade from Freight Services Logistics, the folksy style, the timeless 'country' look of provincial County types, and the outdated twin-set-and-pearls (it's gentrification gone mad). Then there's the smart-casual look (are they all Estate Agents?) while the ones who like to dress down in striped collarless shirts, flat caps and Rag & Bone jackets are inverted yuppies chomping sourdough bespoke, artisan toasties from the Deli Hub while joshing about cask ales, sports massage, footie and darts. Also, spot the Alt. types, the avant-boheme stylists with yarn dread aqua Cyberlox candy rainbow hair falls, and the anti-establishment, nonconformist, radical chic protest style activists on their way to a demo. Not to mention bystanders in loose-fitting, virile 'deer-hunter' or lumberjack checked shirts; there are tattoos and freaky piercings (both cheeks, with luck); there are zebra stripes and leopard spots; there are polka dots, wrap-around designer shades, the ever-so cute Pixie cut, the man-bun top knot, the black leather dungarees (kinky!) the distressed, ragged, faded, blue jeans spattered with paint; the cult favourite pull-on, denim stretch or jazzy patterned leggings; and, finally, the black, white or grey, snakeskin Chelsea boots and the long-sleeve blouse with Peter Pan collar. Hang on a minute! Take a break, dash to the convenience (don't flush foreign objects).There's a poster for Circus Extreme next to an ad for Crispy Crunchy Stonebaked Pizzettas (Buy One Get One Free!). Help yourself to plastic spoons on the way out. You can huddle in doorway of the Vape Lounge and roll up a roll-your-own for later while flicking through the latest Puzzler. In the mid-distance a sign – partly obscured by a lewd graffito – reads Established 1912 and another tagline says Great 2 Hydrate – it might be a Mega Clearance. There's a lot of it about. That bunch of freeloading, table-hogging Laptoppers are probably over-educated metropolitan liberals, or self-employed anywhere, any time, road-warriors; always on the job. Maybe the sassy gal with headphones can fire up your boost socket, although white cordless Bluetooth WiFi soundbuds are de rigueur nowadays. Nooo! OK. Cool. Yeah... Errr... But you, you nosey parker, you curtain-twitching subtopian voyeur – you should be drab; you should be banal, dull, boring, nondescript and (this is important) unobtrusive – you have to blend-in, you should be... ordinary.

Oh, the lights are changing. Walkies?

 illus: La Flaneuse (The Other Side Of Town), 2017

Visionary Or Nothing

I reach the real through the dream. I invent you reality.
- Clarice 'Hurricane Clarice' Lispector

 Writing poetry is not about language any more than taking a bath is about plumbing….So, galvanised, I write, splintering certain words across blank pages of empty space: why?

Academic and other definitions of poetry as ‘literature’ displace the act of poetic creation from the interior psycho-biological universe to an epiphenomenal world of cultural-linguistic constructs where ‘communication’ is all.

Do I write poetry to communicate? No.

Is my poetry a spiritual exercise? No.

Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, in their different ways, consigned metaphysics to oblivion. What has this to do with me? Everything.

Does this mean that only language remains? No.

I will never concede that poetry is literature. The cultural-linguistic paradigm presupposes that everything depends on language to the extent that Being is literally indefinable in extra-linguistic terms: very convenient – if you are a linguist, a post-modernist - or a plumber. Yet, as we all know, 'the map is not the territory' (Korzybski). 

I know my creativity is an innate psycho-active phenomenon. The raison d’etre of my paradigm is transformation, the ‘circumstantial-magical’ convulsion caused by that particular Beauty, ‘the only beauty that should concern us’ (the enigmatic sphinx, the marvelous precipitate of the ancient alchemists) invoked by the transformation of despised prime matter into pure aesthetic gold. Fantastic? Romantic? Symbolist? Surreal? Pop? Subtopian Materialism? But, of course!

The raw material of creation, rather like a chance encounter in the street, is not so much language but me as poet, my ego and all: and the essence of poetic practice is active imagination, even though it is through language that we unleash the vision thing from another world. It is inevitable that poets, in pursuit of inspiration, will engage, in some way or other, with all those innate processes of inner integration, those ‘inner workings’ that surely exist. From this perspective the poem itself may appear a by-product of the procedure; an exercise in therapy, propaganda or, let’s face it, pure entertainment. Take it or leave it.

For me, as I penetrate the archaic heritage, that archetypal forest of symbols; it is the compulsive activity of inspiration arising from the process of self-discovery that is the prime factor: it is this that dissolves those artificial barriers between fact and fiction, between sleep and waking, between dream and reality, between consciousness and the unconscious, between inner and outer space… Thus the poem is quasi-autonomous; it partakes of the de-familiarizing power of symbolic Otherness. Is it too late to get unreal?

Grounding poetic practice in the ontological matrix dissociates ‘pure poetry’ from the cultural-linguistic, epiphenomenal foreground of ‘literary’ discourse, from the dreary, enervating world of career-writers and fake self-referential experimentalists obsessed with brownie-points and prizes.

I know that unilateral engagement on an aesthetic basis with the principium individuationis does not accord with traditional models of perfectibility or divine purpose; perhaps it can be seen as a promethean affront to the established order, or as a way of repossessing everything that has been expropriated (that is to say, stolen from us) by agents of the Mysterium. This is not some kind of spiritual exercise but a way of accessing, as a psychonaut, the mythopoeic domain, the Enchanter’s Domain: a neo-shamanistic anti-quest that is certainly the very antithesis of enlightenment and salvation. Oh, yes, I know I am a spiritual flaneur, a damned poet and (eye roll) a ‘lost’ soul.

To be damned is to be modern, absolutely modern; and to be modern is to be utterly damned once and for all. The human condition evolves too fast or not fast enough, yet the horizon of change is Fear, and the closer we are to the horizon the less we care about rhyme or reason: blank verse for a blank generation. Eye roll and U bend. And that is why.

Revised version of an article from Stride Magazine, 2002

Illus: Visionary Or Nothing II, 2009

Unspeakable Elegy

There is only the unspeakable.

There is only the colour of dust.

The dust of our pasts.

The dust of future ages

- incarnations of anguish?

It matters not.

 

No, I will never deride

My unspeakable desires,

My unspeakable thoughts,

My unspeakable elegies.

- incarnations of the flesh?

 

It matters not.

 

I look at these words

And they burn with hatred.

They are devoid of belief,

Of any shred of humanity

- incarnations in the mind?

 

It matters not.

 

I write an elegy of pain

And it burns with despair.

An elegy for every victim who

Cannot live without pain.

- incarnations of suffering?

 

It matters not.

 

This is the dust of our fevers.

This is a time without embrace.

This is a time without open doors.

This is a time without questions.

 

Flickering light behind glass

Distant clouds of memory…

 

Questions, always questions…

 

They matter not.

Illus: Poetry By Night, 2002

 

Beyond The Dream Screen

A time will come when we are nothing but a memory haunting the dreams and nightmares of some superior species.

This future race will inhabit our planet (no longer called Earth) and live in perfect ecological balance: adjusted to the world, the cosmos, nature and all living creatures. A tenuous memory will be the sole flaw in existence:

MAN… unconscious origin of perturbed sleep, subtle agent of demoralization – what a destiny!

Illus: The Dream Screen, 2017

 

Close To It

 

Close to it. Edge corroded. Dirt. Stones. Bricks, possibly. Can’t see far. Dark.

 

THE AIRCRAFT LANDED THERE COULD BE NO CHARGE OF AIR PIRACY THE CO-PILOT AND ONE OTHER MALE PASSENGER HAD DECIDED TO REMAIN.

 

Rough, circular opening. Fragments nearby. Throw them in. Hear them go. Going, going, gone. Can’t see far. Perhaps there are memories.

 

INCREASE VOLUME: NO FORMAL CHARGE. DUTIES AT DEPARTMENT HAVE ALREADY BEEN DIVIDED BETWEEN TWO SECRETARIES MIGHT WELL TAKE PART-TIME JOB LATER.

 

Closer. Very unwise. No cold rush of air. No darkness visible. No way down or out. Walk round about. Edge covered. Dirt. No sign of life, lower life, or even spawn or eggs gathered in dirt. What –

 

SAME VOLUME: THE AIRCRAFT DUTIES AT DEPARTMENT LANDED NO FORMAL SECRETARIES COULD BE CHARGED LATER POSSIBLY WITHIN DAYS PERHAPS THERE ARE MEMOIRS WE USE THE WORD WHAT –

 

No cold rush of air very unwise very close much closer there could be no formal male passengers – the move could mean a reference possible within days – perhaps there are memoirs, close to it. Close.

Illus: Even Closer, 2003

Get Your Dream Ticket

 

Glow on the Go, Oh Darling! Pop! Fizz! Clink! Power Up!
Falling objects; tripped over a hashtag on my way in,
Oh yes the fun stuff happens, oh yes, oh yes.
Diverted Flight Centre, bring it on, bring it off, all makes and models,
Makes your blood run cold she said, very British.
See it for yourself down at the Art Deco Disco
I mean, seriously? When you got it flaunt it, as they say.
Former Rialto usherette from somewhere else
Ritzy dream ticket Violetta Eureka from Zonal Foundation Inc.,
Not one of your cute Mayfair Ladies (geddit?),
Takes shorthand, Mondrian dress, tres chic – nothing doing.
Hello silky I muttered as Violetta swam into view
It’s like free fall in here, no half measures
Have a good day, yeah?
 
Knockout shape, wow, that dress is really something.
Dumb down smarten up mix and match get the message
Dreaming scream queen and screaming ticket
Exploding all over the place (geddit?) obviously
Closing in like very glitzy ritzy do me favour Cold Sister,
Mondrian dress tres chic nothing doing.
Glow on the Go, Oh Darling! Pop! Fizz! Clink! Power Up!
This is a near-life experience, and you can keep it
Prone to exaggeration, zap your brain it’s easy here
At Alpha Loading Central night moves way out far out
We hear a mysterious ‘ping’ from the deep,
Way down in The Trench; change of destination.
And the bulb’s gone! Shrieked Violetta.
 
Stark reality, see the upside of everything
You like Mondrian? You take it seriously?
I mean seriously? Taboo fantastique what?
That stuff zaps my brain, said Violetta
With a dreamy, oneiric giggle.
It’s The Style, as we call it,
It’s the scaffolding of the world, get a grip.
Get a what? You want a what?
I don’t think so – dream on baby.
Now look it’s really something… even if you’re
Too butch to boogie, too boring to boogaloo, ha ha ha.
Right old knees up do me a favour. Shabby, sleazy,
And I’m too flabbergasted to fandango, I replied.
You’ve got vapour trails in your eyes, she said.
Glow on the Go, Oh Darling! Pop! Fizz! Clink! Power Up!
High fives!
 
News and mags, photocopies, inspire and entertain
Makes it easy! Facial attraction, oooh darling.
Pop! Fizz! Clink!
Before meeting the girls to relax we freeze events
Eyeline, headline, skyline, hemline,
Doors close. What’s hot right now?
Come rain come shine come on Missy Violetta,
Don’t miss your moment in the palace of crystals.
Vamp it up in velvet just because top of the world
Learn the lingo, can be a breeze, High fives! Power up!
 

Illus:  Get Your Dream Ticket, 2017