Chinatown
On an ordinary Saturday Night in Chinatown Young beauty in a rabbit hat goes shopping Life is far from being a fairy tale So we may settle for a rabbit tail Following our own very footsteps In the endless quest for an identity Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Standing on his royal carriage The doggie has a field day Visiting London Chinatown From this vantage point Barking orders at his obedient servants To steer clear from those speciality restaurants Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Young beauty in a Tsarista costume Leading the Halloween trend in Chinatown Against the odds and whims of political correctness Probably just ahead of our sorry times Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night-Shift Gallery
The bland disguise of anonymity Shall not dispel the pale beauty Of an unnamed apparition in Chinatown Under the light of her personal screen The Jiminy Crickets that we have been allotted A direct line of sorts between heaven and hell Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night-Shift Gallery
Like gadflies and moths swirling around the city lights The London Chinatown gawker-traps peddle their buffet offers Eat as much as you like, they say, as if tomorrow was not another day We sink and drown in the crowd’s irresistible undertow Letting our body and soul drift aimlessly with the Saturday night tide Secretly hoping […]
At the threshold of Little Macau’s three hundred and fifty free spins Three ladies not locked up but loose ignore the unfathomable promise Saturday Night won’t hold its breath yet dawn will come Maybe later or after one thousand and one nights Chinatown keeps its secrets close to its chest… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night-Shift […]
High-heeled huntresses stalking in pairs The unabashed leads the shy, blind men beware Roaming around the Hippodrome or any other perdition place Saturday night holds this secret promise close to her chest Life is just another losing hand… Photo Hugh Ardoin The London Londoners Gallery
Anachronisms are just accidents of the brains There are only vague memories of Babylon And the forever lost Garden of Eden Guarded East and West by two formidable Cherubs We lament and cry by the river But the Negus, the king of kings, he won’t listen… Photo Hugh Ardoin The London Londoners Gallery
Braving the perilous undertow of the Saturday Night waves Chinatown is a fascinating place of all temptations The road to perdition starts around the corner Ice cream parlors open doors for a scoop or more The scale can wait… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
On a clear night you can see Chinatown from the Soho shores It is a matter of keeping the count of the Gin Tees By late Saturday night the tab may look fuzzy But we shall remember the flash of an UFO And the cute smiling commander riding pillion Photo Hugh Ardoin The Fast and […]