Photo Hugh Ardoin
The crowds come crashing down the avenues wave after wave In this multicolor sea the fish are aplenty Anglers and cat-women come for the feast They dance and dine on our borrowed flesh Dreams of big love and forever afters Will dissipate before morning comes Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries Hits: 6
In the jungles of the soft tarmac avenues You may catch a glimpse of the evasive wildlife Take a walk on the wild side, the revival of a song of the seventies The walking wounded wander into the slippery side of the avenues of life Masquerade is the “Jab” (Devil) day, the ultimate threat of […]
Dusty streets like some Hollywood western film set The far sides somewhat look alike, no need of cowboys It is the the home of the natives be they black or red This is Karma the quiet village in the Niger Valley Photo Hugh Ardoin Niger The Red Planet Gallery Hits: 14
Riding down Chepstow Row, here comes the Beauty Posse Sheriffs, deputies and the seven nations army were no match to this task-force We just surrender to the craning and the ogling lest we’d wish to die They say tomorrow is an other day But today was spent before it even started Photo Hugh Ardoin The […]
Among the dazzling kaleidoscopic reflections of High Street The “new teddy boys” as anything goes to catch the eye of the gawker This is not a thrift shop, this is D&G (Done & Gone nowadays in China) Marketing geniuses and unabashed creators meet at the very end of the road Next bestselling slogan will be […]
The village of Karma sits quietly in the Niger River valley In this solitary place, a lonely girl walks along the sandy streets Clutching her telephone like some magic amulet To break the spell of her solitude against the stone of virtuality A unique moment repeated like an echo the world over Lonely hearts wandering […]
Ebbsfleet at last the train comes to a quick drop-off stop In the chaos of the industrial estates where trucks and machines sleep A fire is burning like the last of the wild living things The rediscovery of fire is the light of hope of a new era Civilization will be born again in the […]
Two black multicolor dissymmetrical cameos meet on Chepstow The black, the pink and the angels from the lower heavens Succubus and other winged demons rise from the circles of hell To torment our weakened wills as we slowly sink into inebriation The gaze of the Gorgon sisters will turn us into stone Much incantations and […]
The red moon is rising in the evening sky Like a pale sun over the marshes of an eternal dusk Thousands of light-years away on a distant alien planet The swamps of time thrive with new forms of life We are not alone, and we live in fear of future times When white vessels will […]
Wearing a bright red bikini, the she-torero descends into the arena for the final stab A fascinating beauty holding the hand of a supplicant she just met But her eyes are like serial killers, looking for the next consenting victim Life goes on, following death with music and confetti, in a state of state funeral […]