Oh sure, Androo, and we're s'posed to believe you're actually in Beijing?
Where's proof?! You could be in Chicago for all we know!!!! (Wo hun
tsungming!) (Ask Jen wot that means)
Doubting Joodles
----- Original Message -----
From: "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 8:13 AM
Subject: Beijing Bugle / snap
> Running the gauntlet of traffic
> on Beijing's crazy ways
> I walk down silk corridors
> ties like multi-cultural flags
> flapping commniques from
> late capitalism
> before turning left into
> a taxi parked slantwise across the road
>
> The Mandarin was
> decipherable - Huh?
> Which road? Where?
> What's it off? Here there was
> no need for a translator,
> the language of this traffic
> like a cryptic crossword
> over a Naked Lunch.
>
> Now I look out at a foggy
> Beijing evening, English
> chatter in the loungeroom,
> blues on the sound system,
> maids mumbling Mandarin,
> me whispering this
> sign language through
> cyberspace.
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> http://www.bam.com.au/andrew
>
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