Piccadilly Beauty With A Secret

They say that secrets are best kept in plain sight

This was one of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories

As the human tide comes and goes on Piccadilly

Out of the flow appears a young beauty like a mermaid

Suddenly you are Ulysses tied to the mast

And reason which is deaf keeps rowing

Between Charybdis and Scylla

Photo Hugh Ardoin