Dedicated to Lance Gowland (04.11.1935-06.10.2008),
driver of the truck at the first Mardi Gras.
Lance Gowland
yesterday
green park was our playground
the epicenter of a pick me up
for sex crazed young men after allsorts
and undercover cops looking for rent boys
today
at the entrance to the hospice
in the heart of green park
we stood there facing the wall
three return soldiers
a communist, a lawyer and a rice-queen
back in a theatre of war
at a safe distance the sound of police sirens
as sister homocycle mounts sister sadie sadie the rabbi lady
and around the corner
a not so contemplative sister missionary position
distributes foil-wrapped condoms to anyone who meets her glance
all is now left for lancelot
is to wait for the sun to set down on his mardi gras
Joseph Carmel Chetcuti
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