The Pale White of Neck Ecstasy — David White

The Pale White Neck of Ecstasy This book is a journey through a landscape with various women mixing the surreal world with fascinating and infuriating details of these creatures and the irrationality of love and lust The Monkey s Funeral The world is filled with the bizarre and the magical the mundane and the ordinary This book wanders poetically through a mixture of common and irrationally beautiful thoughts experiences and observations In the first story I imagine men having a funeral for a monkey A Marine Band Marches through Her Hollywood Neck Written in response to my feelings for the woman who lived next door a fanciful exploration of a fictional life together she moved before I could show the manuscript to her