‘Lunar Baedeker’ by Mina Loy (1923)
A silver Lucifer serves cocaine in cornucopia To some somnambulists of adolescent thighs draped in satirical draperies Peris in livery prepare Lethe for posthumous parvenues Delirious Avenues lit with the chandelier souls of infusoria from Pharoah’s tombstones lead to mercurial doomsdays Odious oasis in furrowed phosphorous – – – the eye-white sky-light white-light district of lunar lusts – – – Stellectric signs “Wing shows on Starway”…