Standing in a Truck from Soufrière |
| Standing in a truck from Soufrière to Castries, Black Jesus pumping brakes, and Danny the Rat smiling yellow smile from one yellow eye to the other. Bananas, bush, sea shacks--- the great unfinished churches of St.Lucia telling us, this is as far as Europe got. The halfway mark. Church half painted, heart half-full of England, the Lord's prayer, E.C. and U.S. Danny the Rat asks me if I like his island. 'Mwe fet ici,' I say, and the wind pulls back our lips laughing, Danny the Rat bent over, clutching rail, this white man's so funny, and Black Jesus at the wheel driving faster than accidents over half-hearted roads, coconuts bleeding in the ditch. |
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