Mayday Mayday, it’s Rescue Tuesday!
I rescued this week’s piece from My Life in Advertising by Claude C Hopkins (p 205) and The sea by John Banville (p 143).
Freeze frame
Summer afternoon pocketing thunderous idleness in the dark.
Erotic encounter
covert kiss
black-and-white screen
flickering
fading
ghosts of desire sitting in pitch-dark intensity
for hours,
manic fumbling,
twitched satisfaction
deprive primal intensity;
confinement
reputation,
balls for breakfast
conscious phantoms lurch
from joy to grey
approve to disreputable
filled fingers to wanton waste,
picture-house main feature to forgotten poverty.
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