pastry face or pasty face? the latter is truer, the former is a wonderful image
i don't hink anyone had pony-tails during the postpunk era, but otherwise your stereotype is pretty on the money
i felt sad when i found it, just a few days ago in a JH Prynne poem. (of sanguine fire)seminarians. Cimmerians. aquariums.
pastry-faced.
corpulent woodpigeons. corpuscular rodents. rambunctious pheasant. ambitious geese. duplicitous lobster. virulent lettuce. sinuous nosebleed. crapulent fur.
corrosive valentine.
coinicidently cimmerians also figure in a prynne poem (Aristeas, in seven years’)Swift as a face rolled away like
pastry, turned up the stairwell oh
cough now room for two &
faced with bodily attachments:
evidence hovers like biotic soup, all
transposable, all like. The pastry
face takes the name Pie (crust folded
like wings over the angelic sub-
strate, all so like pasties they
hover again), is younger by a
specific aim.