Cannibals, Kings, Friends and Relations
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Soirée on the Palace Grounds Nocturnal incantations Announce the sun’s daily death And the nightly call for the dead to dance. Inclinations explode in my skull In response your cryptic glance. Torches flicker as a fugue begins. You are an enchanted beast of northern taste Among mirrors and mannequins, You provoke an exuberant protuberance I long to share. I’ll dispense with dull formalities If you will take a chance. I may have a rare disease And you may have this dance. Don’t say I didn’t warn you! Don’t say I didn’t warn you! Don’t say I didn’t warn you! May I have this dance?
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This collection provides an opportunity to venture into realms of consciousness and imagination that will leave you refreshed and delighted. You will witness "cannibal sharks In the savage oceans of distant moons," and be introduced to "a high-priestess from a hitherto unknown inner-planetary diocese." This poetic journey is one you will want to return to again and again.
About the Author
David Joe Richardson was born in Hawaii and currently lives in Germany with his wife Victoria, and three daughters, Emma, Claire, and Rose.
In 1978, while studying at the University of Montevallo, he was a founding member of the punk rock band "The Tongues." After a brief, but undistinguished stint in the U.S. Air Force, he studied at the University of Hawaii and did field research in the South Pacific. He later attempted to meld his experiences with the John Frum Cargo Cult into a management methodology in an unsuccessful bid for a PhD at the Queen's University, Belfast. He played electric violin and sang with "Eriko and Friends" and "Neighbors Blues Band" during the halcyon days of the "Electric Uzu," the epicenter of the late-1990's improvisational Blues scene of Fussa City, Japan. His lyrical inspiration is drawn in large part from his days as a fruit picker and farm worker in Europe and travels in East Asia and the South Seas.