Purple Words: Party Of The Blue August Moon

Party Of The Blue August Moon

The evening of the Party was as perfectly

temperate as the atmosphere of Dreams

which one rarely notices to be sultry or frigid.

The Theme of the Party was the word, ‘Filthy’

which meant there were lots of people dressed

in their best Slum-wear, Hobo Clowns, Bums,

etcetera.

Only a few bothered to look up the word

and its Thesauric variations, but they took those

to heart and they were truly abhorrent,

despicable, loathsome, obnoxious, reprehensible,

repugnant, vile and wretched.

A person named Simon was intoning from the

Necronomicon, not your usual Party trick,

“In the Time before Time, in the Age before

the Heaven and Earth were put in their places...”

When a great cacophony of Seagulls, Dogs &

Sirens broke in from the Outside

The notions of a Hovering Snake-Curse and the weird

endless rhythm of distant Indian drums formed a bad

combination which any added element of the bizarre

went far to render the event utterly unendurable.

It didn’t help that the Alcohol was flowing freely

and the Red Lights of the ancient Wurlitzer

bathed everyone in their lurid glow.

There were 3 Punch Bowls full of Service Punch,

Charles Dickens Punch and a third unremembered Punch

as well as Wine and a home-made golden Absinthe,

so the cavorting crowd were truly lunatics tonight

under the influence of the huge Blue August Moon.

---Purple Mark, 09/01/2012

Purple Prompts:                                                                         

1. ”The notions of a hovering snake-curse and the weird, endless rhythm of the distant Indian drums formed a bad combination which any added element of the bizarre went far to render utterly unendurable.” H.P. Lovecraft. ‘The Curse of Yig.’ The Horror In The Museum & Other Revisions edited by August Derlith. (Ballantine Books, 1970), Page 144.
2. “In the time before time, in the age before the heaven and the earth were put in their places,...” edited by Simon, Necronomicon. (Avon Books, 1977), Page 123.
3. “Filthy: abhorrent, contemptible, despicable, despisable, detestable, disgusting, Foul, loathsome, lousy, mean², nasty, obnoxious, odious, reprehensible, repugnant, rotten, shabby, sorry, vile, wretched.” Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus. (Berkley Books, 1988).
4. “The evening of the party was as perfectly temperate as the atmosphere of dreams, which one rarely notices to be sultry or frigid.” Thomas Ligotti. ‘The Lost Art of Twilight’ Songs Of A Dead Dreamer. (Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1989), Page 142.