I really like this snap too, Andrew.
Hal, on first reading, I thought that your quote said 'Open the migraine
that calls you'. That was interesting.
Tina
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>From: Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: snap: tourist trap
>Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:35:52 -0500
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>traps snap tourist
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>Lovely snapshot, Androo!
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>Hal
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>"Open the mirage that calls you."
> --Philip Lamantia
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>On May 30, 2007, at 10:25 AM, andrew burke wrote:
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>>Three sticks of incense lit before a Buddha
>>and I'm making myself happy in a cave in China
>>trailing a tourist bus full of colleagues
>>teaching little to a few before
>>eating something dead to please someone else
>>absolving the driver of blame for the tortuous road
>>and the Chinese peoples for the weather and
>>wondering what the old poets who roamed here
>>did before the steps were set in stone
>>before the guides knew the entire history
>>of each pine cone and snowcapped neighbour
>>with blues in my ear-buds
>>wondering what Li Bai would've thought
>>of John Lee Hooker's mother "It's in him
>>and it's got to come out" just like smoke
>>from a cave on the side of Tai Bai mountain ...
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>>Still milking that trip.
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>>
>>Andrew
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>>http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/
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