In short poems and photographs, Rp Verlaine and New York Model. Dawn-Marie Slocum tell a love story that begins in a bar and is navigated in bedrooms and city streets. Elements of crime noir and science fiction also appear as the two lovers are stalked by a gang with laser guns called the Electric Romeos. Rp Verlaine uses lean economical lines to tell what is basically a love story with edge and humor: She says men she's known/have left deep scars/I tell her I'll be gentle/she laughs and tells me/ that's not what she likes. Sought by a violent gang and always in danger, the lovers speak in terse sentences, sometimes playful often aloof. Intimate thoughts take an almost interior monologue type of perspective. Yet, these short terse lines are often amusing as they are self-deprecating The mailman's face/ when I answer the door/ instead of Val topless. In the end, the lovers find the journey not without its pleasures but difficult to sustain: We drive at night/ at speeds to make suicides/ smile one last time. Rp Verlaine's Lies from the autobiography vol 3 Natalie is a poetry book well worth your time

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