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Summer in England

Summer in England
opens its arms to you.
Summer in England
opens its arms to you.

In a decade of decadence, the powers that be
raided Ma Meyrick’s 43,
but again and again, out of black and white,
she stares defiantly: Queen of the nightclubbing scene.

Through the Roaring Twenties, the dancer Squidgerella moved,
always to her own tune,
penetrating the fug like a silver moon-spur—
penetrating the heart of the agent provocateur.

Squidgerella transformed her world
into a work of conceptual art.
Squidgerella channelled her rage
into an age of revolution.

Summer in England
opens its arms to you.
Summer in England
opens its arms to you.

Elegant and unconventional
in the throbbing gardens of Garsington:
an eternally lonely Lady Ottoline—
the bohemian they dubbed ‘The Gypsy Queen’.

An exultation of skylarks,
an iridescing of kingfisher blue.
With the salted lime of her hungry lips,
Squidgerella is penetrating time for you.

Squidgerella transformed her world
into a work of conceptual art.
Squidgerella channelled her rage
into an age of revolution.

Summer in England
opens its arms to you.
Summer in England
opens its arms to you.

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from The Salted Lime of Her Hungry Lips EP, released June 9, 2016

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"We put the boot in - flew the freak-flag;
We stood resolute like Morrissey’s quiff."

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