Street derelicts stumbling around my little ambulant street selling
places outside the Anne Frank House exit, torn clothes uniformly dirty,
the aroma coming off unwashed bodies inescapably entering my
nostrils...I know that beneath the grime their skin is white but it is
hard to see any bare skin underneath the filth, yellowish fingernails
betraying the determined chain smoker, homeless alcoholics and crack
addicts, Mary-Jane aficionados as always on a mad hunt for change,
attracted by the long queue of foreign visitors to one of Amsterdam's
number one tourist hot spots...
The anne Frank security people deperaately trying to scare them all away
but the moment their guard drops the puking smell in my Farang nostrils
making it clear they are back with a vengeance even before my Dutch
blue shiners discern them...
I wanna think of far-away Thailand and its many attractions, open-air
food courts, the tasty smell of fish sauce and countless other culinary
street food aromas, my thirst quenched by cold to the touch condensed
bottles of Leo beer, rising steam coming off barbequed Khung and
Plamuk...
I wanna think of friendly smiling oriental people instead of sitting
here in good old Mokum once again surrounded by street urchins and
tourists that don't buy my funny little games...
Another summer of listening to nutcase street nonsense screaming obscenities at unseen antagonists, losers with no future...
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