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.
Copyright © Leanne Lovejoy-Burton | Year Posted 2018
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