Beatnik Hallowe'en V: Extravagant Weekend

The Flaneur can't get enough

of that spooky beatnik stuff

 

Call the exterminator

William S. Burroughs

 The dead end of town

 

 

 Thrift Shop costumery

Get your attention

Black cat vase

Old LP

the great great Hank Williams

 

Bet a guy 

ends up

wearing this

Grotesque witch

figurine

Ties that bind

See you later

 

 

Look familiar?

 The Haunted Rectory

The minister lived here 

with his wife,

fire and brimstone

The legend goes

the wife took on

a young lover

Vengeance

is mine

sayeth the lord

 

The old ones say

he walled-up his rival,

 up in here

 

The wife disappeared as well

they say he cooked and...

well just an old wives tale

I'm sure

 Ah Sunflower

weary of time

 Guerilla art

with a gentle nature

 

A wish fulfilled

 

 What are you banging for?

Can't you see it's closed?

On a magic carpet ride

 Tattoo Parlor

 

 I'm going to

 go to heaven

in my own skin

 Lydia O Lydia

the tattooed lady

used to know Groucho

 Belly dancer

I hear she's dating 

the snake-charmer

 Fan dancer

Sally Randy

 The redeemer

of a parallel

 dimension

Tantric tattoos

 Bye-bye

Metaphysical vapor 

emporium

Berkeley may

 appear to be

rather extravagant

 But we watch the World Series

one ghostly game at a time

just like the rest of the Nation

 I bought myself a flask

it reads:
"Tetch of the Crate-chur"

 There's no denying

we are a party town

replete with menacing clowns

 

 

 Shop selling love potions, 

hexes, Spanish fly,

and Mickey Finns

 A touch of decadence

of unbridled sensuality

 

 Where does it all lead?

To perdition and remorse?

27-29 October 2016