GOING HOME:

Sunlight send-off, the streets of San Francisco come alive with
happy waitresses, wave gleaming cleaning clothes from the doorways
of California diners. Pony-tailed waiters dance formation between
breakfast booths whistling Chim-Chimminie. Pipe aboard the last
mouthful of ‘Oatmeal’ before the glory of that first hit of sweet
island ‘Porridge’. The sky waits with open arms. America, thousands
of smiles & happy. The sweat of dance, the pump of the kick drum,
arms raised in the air. Hands shaken, photographs posed for, taken,
stories of lives touched by the groove of Essex. This has been the
best time.

(K)