Down below in the Hollywood
morgue: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Swanson, Peter Lorre
former stars of the movie metropolis
denizens of a lights-out necropolis;
Greta Garbo, still very much alone
in her private tomb,
fat boys Orson Welles and Charles Laughton
in their own moribund Mausoleum;
there is a touch of evil about the cinemorgue:
Moans and groans at night,
lines from old motion pictures, play it, Sam,
frankly, my dear!
Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and the Hammer team,
luscious vampires, ghastly queens!
All the Carradines lie mouldering, David
hanging like a bat
keep loving the old movie stars,
bring a bottle of wine, Chateau Fin
and celebrate the end of the party.
This is a book of free verse poetry that addresses the seven main tests in life and offers some sensible solutions to passing those tests with minimal discomfort.
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
BEFORE DARKNESS FALLS Retails for 14.95 / but you can have it now for only 11.95 This is a book of poetry and prose that deals with real life issues that all of mankind comes to face. Some of the poems deal with the tenderness of love, while others s
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