"wet black bitumen" - very poundianesque! Excellent all round!
On 2/8/07, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> *Sakura Hotel *in February
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> looking out our 13th floor window
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> see Kunming shining to the misty hills
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> rooftops speckled with solar panels
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> dusty cactus in pots on window sills
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> glittery glass buildings
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> wet black bitumen ribbons
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> *Dong Feng Dong Lu*
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> advertising signs six storeys high
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> white chalk characters on pavement slabs
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> before broken beggars
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> thin bent woman balancing a pole of
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> two bamboo baskets of bright red strawberries
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> as the book-keeper
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> balances his books
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> *Cathay* yesterday**
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> *People's Republic of China *today* *
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> tomorrow …
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> * *
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> Some formatting may go out the window, and italics, but the gist of it is
> there. (lu = street.)
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> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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