Unicorns Are Us
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“Unicorns are Us”
You can only imagine
the furore
when magick
hit the score
the Party, not impressed,
was not for witches
too big for their
britches on brooms,
said all the high-brow
cultural dignitories
and low-strung
toad hall politicians
pacing around the room;
so all negligible necromancers
and sullen she-devils transformed
and became the beautiful untouchables
quietly soft shoe tapping
majorly in the middle of the room,
their horns glistening a
pearlescent message,
"Unicorns are Us"
unbridled, opalescent
and glowing up a
lightening storm,
there they stood,
still shining a light
in Bedlam
for the invisible
unicorn in the room,
constant and immovable,
speaking in tongues
whispering its hypnotic
union speak
in the ears of all
cranks, trolls and creeps
prom kings and queens
monsters, faeries
court jesters, all
major and minor
arcana pedigrees
baptised in poetry,
it whispered its
party line, P.S.
"U.a.U."
the sign above
the door
read:
the U.a.U. Party
is always
"On"
here's your badge,
don't be late
you're in
or out
don't forget
to toot your horn
if you're one of us
some say
poor choice,
others say fate
(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
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Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
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“You are to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to reverence the spirit behind it and to laugh at its distortions.”
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“Music does not depend on being right, on having good taste and education and all that.” “Indeed. Then what does it depend on?” “On making music, Herr Haller, on making music as well and as much as possible and with all the intensity of which one is capable.”
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"MAGIC THEATER ENTRANCE NOT FOR EVERYBODY. FOR MADMEN ONLY."
Copyright © Lady Labyrinth | Year Posted 2023
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