A young black beauty strutting on Portobello, touting her best profile
A delicately sculpted living cameo with braids like scorpion’s tails
We are all mere mortals, but some are more than others
Some are just closer to succumb to the succubi here below
Dark bodies dancing with the flames in a hottest last masquerade
Hear the clanging of the chains and the horns’ bellow
Hear them calling you, the gates of Hell are wide open
Just around the corner…
Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery