Standing on the sidelines of the mainstream
A kind of balancing act between grunge and punk
A cryptic message running like a rune for your eyes only
The body becomes a telegram from the soul for the world to read
Fingers are numbers for the mathematical minds to add the odds
Piercings are passages opened and then closed between body and mind
So many things we need to do to reclaim some substitute of identity
Where the pain of being meets the fear of not being
Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery