relaxed living leads to relaxed writing, Andrew? It works as a 'take'...
Doug
On 22-Nov-06, at 5:44 AM, andrew burke wrote:
> It is 8:14pm in Linfen on Wednesday
> the day before Thanksgiving, yes
> it is 2006 and I been eating dumplings
> because we invited Yoko for dinner
> at 5.55 and then we drank green tea
> by the thimble full
>
> we spoke of America's wars and
> laughed at Audie Murphy's heroics
> in another time / the alternatives
> for America now : drop the stick,
> teach others to use the stick, or
> weild a bigger stick
>
> more dumplings for lunch tomorrow
> and I read my email to the strains of
> Charlie Haden's _American Dream_ and check
> out Max's poem, Sharon's site, Patrick's
> witty words, and Australia's sources
> for residencies next year
>
> 8.27 for tomorrow I plot a Word Sleuth
> for my Western Media students to
> search out English words / stick
> my nose out the window to feel
> the big chill - tomorrow below zero / with
> perhaps my first snow
>
> only white for a minute before
> it turns black / before the sludge
> dirties the streets and campus paths
> of ancient Linfen / China Daily re-
> ports again the Chairman's latest
> state visitor and China's
>
> NBL basketball hero's chances for
> the Beijing Olympics 2008 / and read
> on Google news the Thorpedo has
> retired from the pool / only so much
> gold can hang around your neck / and
> wonder when poets retire?
>
> we give Yoko a keyring with Australia
> on it / a koala sunning itself on the beach /
> I write between the flags to avoid
> the censor's shark-like stealth / living
> it up in the foreign teachers' ghetto
> with a thimble of green tea
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> http://www.bam.com.au/andrew
>
>
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