inflation
The road to perdition follows its downhill inclinations Last minute penitents need the flash of pain to reach ecstasy And the flames of hell will keep them warm for the winter Still they’ll beg the succubi for an extra twelve lashes As the earthly price of sin follows inflation… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill […]
A schoolgirl waiting for the bus at World’s End Where symbols meet for better or worse The Monday ads offer high expectations That even the work from home may never reach Reality is the first victim of inflation Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Hovering above the whirlwinds of inflation A world where millions are vulgar, now only respects the billion And the billionaires chopper rises higher at indecently early morning hours In a sky streaked by the condensation tails of the Heathrow morning rush Like threatening signatures of RPG fire under other horizons But in their comfortably numb […]