Blackman is a favourite of mine - but in a themed hotel? Maybe not.
Nice poem though.
Andrew
On 21 July 2016 at 01:19, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yes.
>
> I like the location, all right, but those paintings re not necessarily
> what I’d like to go to bed under…
>
> Doug
> > On Jul 20, 2016, at 3:57 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Fair enough, Max. Blackman's stuff is creepy enough at a glance but to be
> > surrounded by it .... Particularly like your final five lines.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Wednesday, 20 July 2016, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Haunted At The Blackman
> >>
> >> http://www.artserieshotels.com.au/blackman/
> >>
> >> Some smart hotel developers
> >> confected a chain of ever-
> >> so-smart city hotels for
> >> Melbourne Sydney and elsewhere.
> >>
> >> We’re at The Blackman, better
> >> situated than The Olson, though
> >> both are decorated, every floor,
> >> with big blow-ups of their
> >>
> >> more or less famous paintings.
> >> Fancy meeting Blackman repros
> >> everywhere you turn, elevators,
> >> lobby, hallways, all rooms?
> >>
> >> No avoiding them once you’re
> >> in. Close up, some are pained
> >> and haunting, spectres
> >> of a sad person’s mind.
> >>
> >> Not what a hotel needs.
> >> Others are fey, nostalgic,
> >> the old tea name, Bushells,
> >> flakes off bright walls.
> >>
> >> Who stays long enough
> >> to learn to ignore them?
> >> Blackman’s Alice pictures -
> >> well-known in Australia
> >>
> >> as Tenniel’s, I rather
> >> think - carry some Carroll
> >> haunted fancies well.
> >> And white rabbits abound.
> >>
> >> Parked out front, their
> >> midget rental cars bear
> >> Alice blow-ups larger
> >> than their vehicle.
> >>
> >> Or ride an Alice bike.
> >> Not me, I sidle through
> >> the winter side-street
> >> to the wind-torn tram stop,
> >>
> >> eager for town, its cheery
> >> ignorance of the themed,
> >> the calculated, the forlorn
> >> Blackman girls skipping.
> >>
> >> I’ve stayed far too long.
>
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