Long Ascot Poems

"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire

"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns." 
Charles Baudelaire

"Smell is a Word. Perfume is Literature."

"There are...

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In a phalanx of four: Peter, Lisa, Dave, and I, descended a waterfall of marble stairs - pilgrims to another time - as if we’d punched through a wormhole.

It’s a five-star bash at the palace...

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No one seemed to take much note at first.
Old-timers on park benches passed a comment or two,
Somebody wrote a letter to the local rag,
but no one (who mattered, that is)
really seemed to mind.
Of course, you...

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The curtain rises. Steve Merkin, the unscrupulous accountant, and John Travailleur, Esq. just another John, are seated at a bar in a seedy looking inn. Mitchell Hollywood, the adulterous innkeeper, is behind the bar. He...

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Connor the baby dragon went to see the queen
He knocked upon the palace door insisting he was seen

The courtiers and the equerries on seeing the little tyke
Told him to be off at once his kind...

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The queen Elizabeth was born in April nineteen twenty six
she grew up with her corgis and taught them lots of tricks.
She was first born child at Balmoral Castle,
born to the Duchess of York without any...

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Annotated Achilles amends fallen frame amputees

Bulimic Barbies browse media monkey banalities

Cameo clouds cling to beaded breath curios

Dopamine dreams delineate check cash desires

Echo endophfins eulogize bullet brain excrement

Fecal folly fantasies reveal relevant frivolities

Gonadal grownups gulp secret...

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Princess Martina Matilda Marianna Mouse,
held the most wondrous parties in any house;
with the finest imported Cheshire and Brie,
served up with green olives and black tea.

In her finest satins and imported lace,
this fair princess with a...

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Did…I…. tell you my father had a horse?
This story is true, you know that, of cause
Well, one day, we found her, with her legs in the air
Chewing a pair of my dad’s old smelly underwear

The...

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Ladies dress up, looking their best
Pretty clothes chosen just to impress

Perfumed and pretty the ladies in high heels
Their menfolk  look keen and prepare to do deals

It’s Ladies Day, at Ascot,  an important event
For...

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The maiden was carrying a basket
it was full of sweet flowers for market
once she got there she places a blanket
then lays the bunches around a casket

A toff came along and got one for Ascot
he doffed...

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I'm just an old-fashioned, flannel lumberjack shirt.
My father was some overalls, a farmer of dirt.
I'm a worn out and holey pair of cotton socks,
An unwanted sweater, packed away in a box.

My son's a fancy ascot...

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Gloria Gee was driving her dragon Mars home in style.
They were be there in little over a quarter mile.
She had painted her pick-up truck with hearts and stars.
How do you like it? She asked her...

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Overlooked and underpaid
Quite fetching in a suit with vest
Ascot tied about the neck
Reminds me of my wedding day

Black and white mixed creamily
  becomes this neutral hue.
Graphite becomes art in strokes
 and shading; imagination is...

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Have you ever met a creature of the swamp
  the kind that makes his home in the DC bureaucracy

I hear there are hundreds of thousands of them
  I shop at Macy's, so why...

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Part 2  - " Lily" / Kate Bush https://youtu.be/MWaqPOnR5wU






"The Red Shoes"




3 

Pieces of Paper
A Line, A Cross, A Curve
HOME

Davenport
Ascot
… 

3

Clotho
Lachesis
Atropos

Fate
or
Destiny


(LadyLabyrinth/2019)
llb, klb, mlb





"The Red Shoes" / Kate Bush
https://youtu.be/rbbPPy_bNM4


"Lily" / Kate Bush
https://youtu.be/MWaqPOnR5wU
...

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