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as a new continent of ceiling dries above my head my emotions are wheat ears in a cornfield teaching not writing smog rolling in no air to breathe dog fattened beneath my window for the builders' team's pleasure at the end of the job - 'they're from the south' says a local don't know what to believe anymore wheat ear in a cornfield watching Vanity Fair with English subtitles even though it's in English 'the English accent is too weird' says the US teacher he says he teaches Brutish Litter-rr-cha home from the Desert Storm to this teachers here on pedestals pre-Confucian logic lost to tradition politics their religion the government window dressing Beijing for games to distract the world the head Mannequin notching up frequent flyer points to win the hearts and news footage of nations like Camaroon 'China cancels debts of 33 African countries' maybe the Trojan Horse is terra-cotta too China Big Bizness (double happiness) doing backroom deals to buy the West's favours while taxi drivers have Mao dolls with nodding heads on their dashboards fishing for images in the murky waters of Shanxi's Lethe Fred whispers in my ear - 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' i'm a wheat ear in a cornfield looking for favourable winds home Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ http://www.inblogs.net/hispirits http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/