Double decker
The girl with kaleidoscopic eyes has a ticket to ride The red double decker the old souvenirs of the quartet Who sang ‘she’s got a ticket to ride’, I was then in my early teens The first parties under the vigilance of an army of mommies Sporting crazy ‘permed’ hairdos that looked like crash helmets […]
Riding high on the double-decker sound rig A black goddess with hat and clover leaf Looking down at the rowdy crowd of mortals A stream of Maya ants devouring everything in their path Drinking from the bottles and belching aloud Signing pagan songs and petting the girls As if immanent death would strike tonight Hugh […]
The American Dream is sold by the bottle on the Gungzhou Streets The Genie’s dark body fluid is here for the dreamers and the ambitious The experiment of a trip in a bubble out in space, make your last wish The red double-decker bus the London symbol has been Americanized The exotic experience doesn’t care […]
In our suburban wastelands where machines are returned to the wild to die A herd of red buses gather under a metallic tree in a jungle of plastic and steel Beasts huddled in the fear of the iron-monger, waiting at the watering hole To slake the thirst of their of old their growling motors at […]
Two traditions meet in the solitude of the platform of a double decker The Igbo traditional raffia masquerade costume represented here in its more modern expression by a hessian tape camouglage outfit Standing on the platform of a less ancient but no less emblematic London double-decker a masquerade unmasked Igbo dancer is ready to take […]