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2015, Alan Moore, architecture, child, compromise, dark, Eddie Campbell, From Hell, life, mother, obligation, powerlessness, rain, relationship, society, speech, streets, traffic, twilight
a child searches for a mummy
among the sketches while the
streets outside fill with traffic
the strong lines of architecture
inverse to sketchy life, there are
dark lives behind twilight streets
there is no power in the rain
there are no mummies possible
in sketchy line they all end up ‘…
down the rabbit hole’ there is only
discharge and account remaining and
the four whores of the apocalypse
a little snippet from askance From Hell, askance from chapter ten of From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, gwn’n’avvalook
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Alan Moore & life wormhole: purpose
child & mother wormhole: Plumstead – Woolwich – Plumstead 290508 – / the breath of London
compromise & obligation wormhole: 1959 –– MANHATTAN –– 2012
rain & society & streets wormhole: events happen / through all measure of name
speech wormhole: ‘never a dull moment …’
Wow! I really like this poem very much! And, who wouldn’t love a poem with such a fantastic title! I think you’d better copyright “The Four Whores of The Apocalypse” … that’s wonderful, and I can think of all kinds of stories to write about them! 🙂
Wonderful poem, my friend!
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thank you so much, John; but I’m afraid the title was nicked ‘From Hell’ and I’d be infringing some serious copywrite (herm) if I didn’t credit Alan Moore at the bottom … phew!
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Ah yes … pesky copyrights 🙂 It’s still a great phrase/title though! I like how you worked it into the poem. I’ll have to check out “From Hell”…..
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