Gothic Objects / August 23 2007
I had a purple moment today when I stepped out in front of a car. It did not hit me but I came within a whisker of suffering serious injury. If I had his e-mail address, I would thank God for my fortunate escape.
Luckily, Audrey was not with me. She would have been very angry with me, I’m sure. As usual, I was wandering along with various songs and lyric ideas running through my head, oblivious to what was happening around me. This kind of thing keeps happening more and more frequently just lately - now that I am past the 35 years-old mark. (35? – Reality Ed.)
I shall have to pay more attention in future to the potential dangers of the semi-urban jungle that is our little Derbyshire village.
Something rather odd, though: the car that nearly hit me had three or four mannequins in the back. Each was dressed in torn black clothing and adorned with a Joan Collins convention’s supply of silver and gold costume jewellery. They were all wearing what seemed like navy tattoos on their arms and each one had thick, ghostly-white make-up plastered on its lifeless face.
I could not help but stand there in the road and simply stare open-mouthed as the angry driver gesticulated wildly at me in disgust, covering the inside of her windscreen in substantial droplets of furious lady-spittle.
Perhaps they were all en-route to some sort of funereal get-together, or maybe they were destined to be extras in the new Cure video.
Either way, I found the whole episode rather disturbing and had to return home immediately so that I might lie quietly on my bed for a while.
Filed under Growing Old / Other People / Song Writing
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2 comments on “Gothic Objects”
Jo Beaufoix / August 25th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Napoleon
Maybe they were not mannequins, but the lifeless bodies of 3 Joan Collins lookalikes she had knocked into the next world with her purple death machine.
Perhaps she was angry because she missed you.
Maybe you were to be the final addition to her collection.
I’d have Audrey with you at all times from now on as dogs can sense these things and she will protect you with her canine might.
Napoleon Fantastic / September 2nd, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Good idea. Thanks, Jo.
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