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Penny Dreadful

"Penny Dreadful"
Penny Dreadful Penny Dreadful Do you remember when? That time long before Formaldehyde kicked in? When the Transformer grew your freedom wings, blew your neurons in? That time when your story kissed her Blue Violet bleeding grin? A wet ripe juicy bruised plum for sucking sins Penny Dreadful Penny Dreadful You are fed full fat Love hard on Electrifying whims Be careful what you care for When the other side comes knocking in Milk Wood Deep Violet Black Begins Penny Dreadful Penny Dreadful Never mind the Banshee call Blessed are the Ravens Black beaks open blood red caverns Blush Pink throats wanton bruises spoil Ah, a sigh, long wise pause, then you suffer through remembrance your lost and hungry bleeding Nosferatu call Coleridge he chides you, “So measureless to man, you are mere Novitiate Disciple - As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing A mighty fountain momently was forced? Good God man! With the Light Storm in her hands, your defibrillator bursts!" Penny Dreadful Penny Dreadful Perched on the Razor’s Edge A dream to dance in Sunlight Wanton kisses pierce through all your Dying Dark Knight pledge Coleridge buts in again, "But, what say you then? Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail? Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail? She has you by the tail again?" And your reply my friend, "By my lightening rod I have her spent, in my imagining." Sings chants of silent monks dressed in cut Scarlet and Vermillion cerebral slow lust is long and deep and low....singing visceral put full ache to ride below Below, in caverns measureless to man - swans long necked and wings wide spread their kissing lips are deep and stinging put aching ripe cherry lips to bed in Latin when the Vesper Bells are ringing Penny Dreadful Penny Dreadful Her name was Maude Frankenstein raised her flower to the electric morn and life again was born Brighter than Sunshine squeezed tight and bright with the lights turned on and curtains drawn Penny Dreadful Penny Dreadful Coleridge says in daft dismay, "Tis a sin, a curse to want to possess her Pearl Purse to the Electric Storm"
(Lovejoy-Burton, August 2018)
1. Penny Dreadful, Season 1, 2014 https://www.gomovieshub.se/penny-dreadful-season-1-2014-6428.66k8620/streamin.html 2. Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Colderidge https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/kubla-khan 3. Aqualung, "Brighter Than Sunshine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3In8VPzZwAE 4. "As my youngest sister once said, "I despair what is to ever become of you Leanne" :)... I have the best sisters.", Leanne Lovejoy-Burton somewhere on the Outskirts of Siberia. 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein 6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley 7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley 8. "It's a good thing I brought my library card because I'm totally checking you out." - Anonymous. 9. "Happiness", Goldfrapp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnHlGONToIc 10. THIS IS A WORK OF PURE FICTION.

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