Paradise Motel
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John Whitehead's debut book of poetry, complete with illustrations, Paradise Motel is a poetic yet surreal look at the world. It raises a fundamental question about the nature of reality: is it all that it seems?
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Paradise Motel - John Whitehead
PARADISE MOTEL
Paradise Motel
Poems by John W. Whitehead
Illustrations by John W. Whitehead and Joshua Whitehead
Glass Onion Productions
Paradise Motel
Published by Glass Onions Productions, Inc. at Smashwords
Poems by John W. Whitehead
Illustrations by John W. Whitehead
and Joshua Whitehead
Copyright ©2011 Glass Onion Productions, Inc.
COVER ILLUSTRATION:
Paradise Motel by John W. Whitehead
I have heard from the wise that we are now dead and the Body is our tomb.--Plato
There are misguided dawns
Vague nightmares
Mislaid pawns
And forgotten poets.
—John W. Whitehead
Table of Contents
I. Outside in the parking lot
Neon Monsters
In the Lonely Places
Parameters
Prisons Without Bars
She Was a Fractured Soul
II. These forlorn angels have horns
Angel with Broken Wings
Creature of Darkness
The Grasses of Eden
Evil Is Liquid
Mother, Lock the Door
III. Next door there’s been a killing
He Died Alone
Cracked People
Does Anyone Remember?
Who Are These Illusions?
Scar
IV. Everyone’s heading inside
My Love Walks Upon the Water
I Heard God Walking
Alone Again
She Dreams in My Mind
She Kissed Me as If I Were a Corpse
V. The old man in seven-ten
I Was Mortally Wounded
That My Face Would Erase
Sacrificial Lamb
The Three Wisemen
VI. Two angels sit in the lounge
I Awoke in My Dream
I Hear Mozart Weeping
Silver Nails
Why Can’t It Be?
VII. On the television screens
God Lives on Cold Concrete
I Woke Up This Morning
Eggs
The Moon
VIII. In the holocaust kitchen
The Dark and Damp Deceased
Demon in the