An open letter to Sebastian Horsley
up the dirty stairs again / dandy dreams, cocaine screams
paint the walls in junkie blood / dress the whores in opium green
sharks they circled and fog closed in / a spectrum of sequins in turpentine
amoral turpitude at the gate / as violent love spilled in the wine
a carnal herald in sober times (carpe noctum, ye crucified)
death before boredom, break the line (carpe noctum, ye crucified)
conceal the who who you are / a mask to be accepted
let no one know who you are / a man to be rejected
and what of love the strangulation / an invasive cancer, labyrinthine
decadent, delectable, deductible / drowned in dihydrocodeine
sebastian, bastard, mother sends sympathies
regrets, egress, fetal alcohol apologies
night come to take her away away, son / night come to take her away
night come to take her away away, ah! / night come to take her away
“half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman; half-Nazi, half-Liberace”
a carnal herald in sober times (carpe noctum, ye crucified)
death before boredom, break the line (carpe noctum, ye crucified)
carpe noctum, ye crucified, ah / carpe noctum, ye crucified
carpe noctum, ye crucified, ah / carpe noctum, ye crucified