Tag: America
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A TALE OF TWO WORLDS
Palm trees and bright lights and smiling people. The glamour. The glitz. The full Hollywood razzmatazz. Over-turned cars and burning fires and desperate people. The injustice. The violence. The full social unrest. Cameras clicking and flashbulbs sparking and the crowd cheers. The gowns. The radiant idols. The elite on show. Cameras clicking and flashbulbs sparking…
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EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK
‘How about this… Americans harnessed electricity,…’ ‘Yes, very good, Mr. President.’ ‘…we split the atom…’ ‘Well, sir, technically that was a New Zealander.’ ‘…we gave the world the telephone…’ ‘That was a Scotsman, Sir’ ‘…and the internet…’ ‘Tim Berners-Lee was an Englishman working in Switzerland.’ ‘…we settled the Wild West…’ ‘Maybe don’t highlight our record…
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JUST VISITING
‘What is he doing?’ ‘I have no idea.’ ‘He’s just standing there.’ A small group of onlookers stopped on the sidewalk to stare at the man standing in the middle of the intersection. ‘Did he just come out of the manhole cover?’ ‘Should we ask if he needs help?’ The lights changed. Yellow cabs swerved…
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VEILED
The veil had been lifted. She had seen the demonstrations, the protests. They had spread from America, all the way across the ocean to her doorstep. At first she didn’t understand. This wasn’t a problem here. The police didn’t do things like that here. People were treated equally here. Her black friends never spoke about…
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NOSTALGIA
‘Closed’. The sign hung on the entrance to Rock ‘n’ Rogers 50’s Diner. ‘What will you do now?’ asked Rock. Rogers shrugged, ‘Head further south, try again.’ ‘Still think it’ll work, huh?’ ‘Sure do. People love nostalgia.’ ‘Sure, for certain things, maybe they don’t want to be reminded about everything.’ ‘It was a simpler time,…
Iain Kelly 