CHOCOLATE
PERIWINKLE OVER CHOCOLATE FACTORY IT’S 6 A.M.
In bed with paper +Humbert who looks at downed Russian
plane Face of Putin wretched+elfin stares back at him You
get the face you deserve says Hum’s mum a Lolita scholar
with a dry sense of humour
I am currently attempting a re-invention tour My last career
was striking only in its adherence to the unglamorous This
time around I aim to re-vivify the haggard Bring me your
immutably fatigued your careworn minions +with a macabre
sense of comedy I will eradicate melancholia itself
Last week I hired a new staff member within minutes she brightened:
I’m not stupid I can see you have powers I tried to withhold the truth
But now discovered I had no choice but to hurtle her toward her newly
dead “Poppy” Her severe depression there for all to see lifted I know
on paper this does not sound like anything fresh But any further follow
up would ruin its magic
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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
Fall 2015
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