Though I will never be satisfied with anything homage I write, here is “Elementary”
The gas lamps gutter
As one mind seeks another
Midnight vapors mingle forms
As a cane kicks the cobbles
Alabaster, ebony, indigo skin
Lost in pleasures of opium
Chemistry of a man may die
This city of ashes
This coal dust lie
Calculating eyes measure velvet smiles
Fascinating!
Bootblack hearts twist...
Form wounds we are doomed to repeat
A dearth of invention
To see without discovery
To rule without mastery
Baffling!
The sweet sing of needled vein
Enlivened, the distractions remain
To gather grace in the darkness of memory
Pocket watch clicks as rapier wits
Matched in the spray of water’s fall
Tempt from moments unforgivable
The necessary solution
In two parts hydrogen to one part oxygen
With a violin slicing the amber night
The hound, it bays
Watson, your revolver!
To the trains-we're on our way
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