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DRAG/QUEEN

... he points his toes like a swan stretching its neck : smooth calves in fish-nets to slip into stiletto heels,         performance art of a deceptive nymph ... grace on fine-point tips : his gift - in stiletto heels, impersonation or personification of feminine beauty leporine lithely limned delicate dancer        it is almost as if floating across water        he mimicked once more before some inner mother's nature took over façade of savoir face - voila! a star in it's place ... ... It is her face when the night creates a cape borne with Van Gogh plumes sufficed with self she paints upon his face : starry nights sun-flowers, irises covering the welts... comparably museum worthy, imitation flames yet like any other canvas           beneathe it could lie disappointment and mistake           drafts of inspiration, cover-ups of cynicism           another creature - some creation unlike him what was before / the curtain / is unseen, but what if ... ... the truth and process to what presently one sees or believe could be / only an amateur attempt: moments unfelt under layers & layers of trial and errors / contempt?       would you wipe away Mona Lisa's       smile and devilish wicked secret ? just to uncover blemished a masterpiece: an ugly Danish duckling underneath to prove that swan-lake a gent ... to evolve from broken eggshells become a song timely hummed & remembered well priceless history murals' on passing face all spoken thoughts performing down the lace       define yourself, how the flight of life from embers       happiness pursuant to tender Fully free with grace, it is the power of creativity / the spirit's ability to overcome adversity the art of divinity - that is what he is practicing                                    This trumpeter                                  swan in stiletto heels...
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Apr 26, 2016
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