May '12 1
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.


Posted by Jennifer Liston

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  1. Robert says:

    *Now I am really lost for words!!! :-)

  2. Beckie says:

    *Wow!

  3. Jen says:

    *How unusual, Robert! xoxo ;-)

  4. Jen says:

    *Thanks Beckie (I think!)... it's another strange one. Like all these 'rescuees', they're a bit different to my normal style. xo

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