Bright bright float after float drawn through town,
Near-missing dog paws, electric cables pushed aside to make way
Families huddled on the roadside, hot
People appear on balconies of apparently abandonned buildings
Tractors, generators and dancers add to the August evening swelter
Electric light and max volume speakers drown out
Bagpipes, drums and turban-ed men twirling their balloon decorated umbrellas
Following camels, elephants and dressed up horses
Child Ganesha hidden by a red trunked mask - alone on a vast float
Star Ganesha statue brightly lit and surrounded by fluttering plastic flowers
Organ players and singers lead bands of drums, trumpets and bells
Blue painted Krishna on a borrowed bull adjusts his leopard print loincloth
Grey men push pull generators, top up bubbling fuel
Avoiding bumping dancers in front
Setting the pace for the lamp bearers accompanying all
Wires held by hand, strip lights on metal... bang, fire waiting to happen, doesn't!
Laughing monster float stuck 100m up the road
Endless laughter like a film vilain - (ha ha ha ho ho ho)
Lone dancer fills the space, Edna Everage meets turban-ed tribesman
Half an hour prancing and he and the laughter move on!
Last float squeezes by
Balloon sellers and rolling sweet stands take their place
The night is still hot, but quiet
Not quite sure how everyone made it down our narrow lane.
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