New Orleans, Part II

pet zombie abomination
sex magic party
zombie girlfriend
hot sex magic
voodoo and zombies
raising people from the dead
creating new life

the first alchemists
female scientists
youth, aging, and beauty
Bimini’s Fountain of Youth
came back wrong
Elixirs of Youth and national transmutation circles

can’t get something for nothing
can’t get life and eternal youth, without slaughter and death
the Philosopher’s Stone, made of blood
fire, blood, snakes and eggs
Baphomet
fiery sex magic transmutation circle
a circle of embers

chimeras in the attic
magic, alchemy and science
stem cells and chimeras
Circe’s lab
Minotaurs and Frankenstein monsters
corpse man

body farms in CA and TX
visiting freezers, in the morgue
population control meets infertility
genes and mutations
stitching together the perfect person
science experiments upstairs

blood and pancreas – givers of Eternal Youth
undying vampires
swamp house recluse
freshwater and saltwater healing pool
brackish resurrection water
ions and lightning
reanimated alligators

saltwater crocodile
awake after sleeping for two centuries
old age and new life
successful head transplants
dying at 146 years old
modern medicine

New Orleans

older ghosts
sacrificed to the Elder Gods
more ancient and more cruel gods
blood will spill
reclaim and re-consecrate the land, with the shedding of blood
burnt offering
the shepherd’s bloody return
the final sacrifice

plague rat
cursed
invoking djinn
pool of darkness
hammer of God
swamp witch
summoning djinn and invoking the Elder Gods
the true faith

shamans and alchemists, instead of vapid consumers
alchemist magic
turn lead into gold
pigs and goats
beauty and tragedy
fleas and ants

the great mystery
Samhain and harvest-time
magical alligators
back from the dead
unearthed after all this time
fresh and new, like she was never put in the ground
resurrection pits
old magic: death and revival magic
healing and reversing old age
live forever

healing stitched together wounds
rejuvenating peat bog fire
punished with immortality
the undying
hadn’t aged a day
shamanism, Voodoo, Santeria, Palo and Obeah
ancient magical practices
shamans and alchemists in the new world
lived another 100 years
immortal magic and alchemy

out of the burial pit
in the barrows
the beginnings of symbolic thought
graves, temples and sacrifice
mystical Stonehenge
aliens and cave people