praying mantis on screen
canoes prowl reef in early morning sun
as it flashes on the rhythmic fall of weed cutter's cutlass blade
everybody's got something to sell besides the obvious dollars and dope
aloe rub, starfish, vegetable patties, braid your hair miss and bush
doctor cure
sudden angry eruption between aloe peddler and man with property to protect
muscular security guard with truncheon of twisted wire
'kiss my blood clot' she hisses and they're enemies for life
in the beach front bar they're playing reggae versions of Jim Reeves' Greatest
hits
the waitress sings along, eyes focused dreamily on that sentimental world
and there's DANCING IN PARADISE...
blue green ship in turquoise bay
swollen bauxite-red river rushing
stream rising from feathered bamboo hills
tracks once paved now falling away into deep lush hills
and the farmed-out road contracts pass through so many hands
the print erodes with the weather-worn blacktop
and the jungle's always trying to reclaim the right of way
and the mangoes cacao tumeric goats soursop
mushroom cane plantations limes
horses crayfish long-legged birds donkeys
curved horns of cattle above dense grass
ganja sensitive plant ackee
and some thorn whose prick brings lockjaw
and tires torn by sharp yellow rocks--
young girl stares pensively from dark door in pale blue wall
Big About and friends at their crossroads bar
with its dirt corral for dancing
drink soursop juice all day long
in quest of the perpetual stiff bamboo
and there's DANCING IN PARADISE...
Biggy Dread gunned down by police at Bit Bridge March 16
riding a mule cart to Sav-la-Mar pulled out a cutlass and they had to shoot
that's what they say
something tells me they like to shoot
something in the eyes of the ones at the road block
where they searched the car and tried to get us to confess to whatever...
there's truncheons and gas down in Harbour St.--
typical response where life isn't so sweet
and somebody gets desperate enough to say so--
price of fish price of flour
going up up up almost by the hour
and they throw money on spectacular shows
to show the world the right likes the right music
and the Prime Minister sucks ice cream in the company of a happy band of
children
while a naked man, sores on his neck,
lies for days in Washington Boulevard gnawing chicken bones
and the Chamber of Commerce thinks there's too much crime
and there's a kung fu movie in every town
and there's DANCING IN PARADISE...
-- Jamacia, Easter 1985
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Looking at the images, one immediately thinks of archive photos of at least a year and a half ago. Lots of people together without masks dancing freely
How a music group can deliver strong and clear messages without singing is a mystery yet Canadians GoodSpeed You! Black Emperor they succeed very well.
"Creep" by Radiohead is certainly one of the most listened to, revisited and reinterpreted songs in the history of music. So much loved and listened to on all six continents, at least once in our life we all found ourselves humming it.
Very bad story for rapper T.I. and his wife Tiny, in fact, they have been accused of sexual abuse and kidnapping.
The malefactor managed to take Koji and Gustavo away, while Miss Asia, the third bulldog, escaped and was found shortly after by Lady Gaga's bodyguards.
David Crosby against Phoebe Bridgers, if we had been in the Middle Ages, they probably would have challenged each other with the sword, while in 2021 they decided to go wild with tweets.
Evan Rachel Wood, the beautiful protagonist of Westworld has decided to denounce the violence she has suffered for years, at least according to what she claims, by Marilyn Manson.
After some positive signs in the past months, here is the news that we weren't hoping to learn and that throws new questions on the possibility of organizing festivals and live concerts for 2021.
The winners of the 43rd edition of the Kennedy Center Honors have recently been announced, including Joan Baez, Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Allen and the violinist Midori.
The band Soundgarden recently recorded two classics with Brandie Carlile. After the death of their leader Chris Cornell, the band had decided to stop for some time also as a sign of respect for the untimely death of their front man.
New year is synonymous of news and in fact 2021 opened with a nice surprise. The American rock group, The Foo Fighters, founded in 1994 by Dave Grohl ex drummer of Nirvana, delight us with the release of a new single entitled "No son of Mine".
He was 69 and on Christmas Day, guitarist Tony Rice, Bluegrass legend, passed away. His label, Rounder Records, made the news with an official release on December 26th.
We still talk about music, but today we do it from a different point of view, taking a cue from a book, a photographic book called Ten Cities.
I was about 6 years old when I listened for the first time "Blowing in the wind" hummed by my mom while she was accompanying me to school, the version was the Italian one, but I liked the rhythm right away.
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