Bob,
Well it just goes to show that if you look after the clarity the obscurity
will look after itself! I wasn't trying to be fashionably open-ended,
really. Sounds like I should load up the title and the post script with
explanatory details at the very least. Herewith what I replied to Terri by
way of explanation, in case you are interested.
As for what it is about, it refers to the economic life of East Asian
> countries as it was in the early nineties. Exuberant, to say the least.
When
> private business really got going along the big coastal cities of China,
the
> stock market was very labile, there were few regulations and people became
> millionaires overnight. Huge shiny buildings went up at the blink of an
eye
> and flamboyant neon signs lit the night. To walk about in such a place
felt
> exciting, intimidating and worrying at the same time. Local people
investing
> in the new life style were collectively too ambitious and this led to a
> "bubble economy" AKA "an over-heated economy". You see something similar
> here called a housing bubble, but its just a pip-squeak compared to the
> rampant collective ambition and greed of ten million people in a single
city
> like Shanghai. Then followed the East Asian economic crash of the late
> nineties, not long after this poem was written.
Thanks for letting me know..............no doziness implied.
Colin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Cooper" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: newsub/neon
> Hi Colin,
> I keep looking at this (just looked through it again) and I'm still not
> getting much more than a description of bright big flowers - but certain
> words (vacant, ecstatic, monstrous) seem to hint that it's about something
> else as well. But, sadly, I can't discover how the hologram moves.
> What am I missing? (Sometimes I'm dead dozy, can't see for looking, etc!)
> Bob
>
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>
> >From: Colin dewar <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: newsub/neon
> >Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:25:53 -0000
> >
> >Summer flowers
> >
> >Neon night flares and fills the vacant brain.
> >Blocks of light move up and down
> >to make the smoggy air glow
> >with the colour of a thousand flowers.
> >They bloom and burst and overpower
> >with their ecstatic life.
> >
> >Are these enormous orchids
> >hot-house grown?
> >Where are their roots drinking
> >and how can we afford
> >their monstrous joy?
> >
> >
> >Shanghai, P.R.C. 1994.
> >
> >Alternative title: East Asian Bubble, or is it obvious enough?
> >
> >
> >Colin
>
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