Lola

A dramatic splash of Coca-cola trailed by an adoration of blood orange, pink peppercorns, caviar lime, orange blossom, tonka, spicy nutmeg dancing sinuously across a base of warm Brazilian cherrywood. To see beauty in all, is to lift our own Soul Up to loftier heights than do chose who aspire Through culpable suffering, vanquished desire. Harsh Reality, dread and ineffable Whole, Distils her red draught, enough tonic and stern To intoxicate heads and to make the heart burn. -- Emile Verhaeren Art: La Tunique Rose by Tamara de Lempicka, 1898 – 1980