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Chomping At The Bit
From the larder of my portmanteau. I address the coming of the beast. Rocking the wooden horse, wearing shoe lifts from Abercrombie & Fitch. Beating a brass spittoon with a gewgaw in the asylum of my mind's cabaret. Scratching at my feet of raven clay, tapping on cataracts of the toad's rigor mortis. Whetting my appetite for the soul's corset line, Sparring me no garter.
Raising my hackles. Dressed in a johnny gown and chomping at the bit as froth drips from the hair of a frog's chinny-chin-chin. But my toast is dry and the host is sopping in the gravy's redeye. The fire in the hearth's acapella screaming. "No wasting the gruel with the devil's Tabasco."
Galvanizing my peccadilloes with a punk band. Applying cosmetics and coming out with something spanking new. Inhaling gin to keep me afloat, as Charon plays skipper to the scow. "Ferry me an olive, but not wash my sins."
Raising my hackles. Dressed in a johnny gown and chomping at the bit as froth drips from the hair of a frog's chinny-chin-chin. But my toast is dry and the host is sopping in the gravy's redeye. The fire in the hearth's acapella screaming. "No wasting the gruel with the devil's Tabasco."
Galvanizing my peccadilloes with a punk band. Applying cosmetics and coming out with something spanking new. Inhaling gin to keep me afloat, as Charon plays skipper to the scow. "Ferry me an olive, but not wash my sins."
Published 18th Jan 2023
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18th Jan 2023 3:41pm
This is quite an inspired mix of modern and Gothic imagery with darker side of comedy type motif...the theme comes off as dark with a really good ekphrastic understanding of Christine Wu's artwork, but also reflects on indecision to me, a very narritive prose that references just how abstract the mind can truly be...quite a creative work Adagio my poetic friend
18th Jan 2023 4:01pm
I sure appreciate that. My writing is not for everyone, but I offer no apologies. Thank you kindly.
