Fresh and lovely, Andrew!
Woke me up!
Stephen
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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> First sight
> is overused
> but here humans
> crowd into frame
> like a scene from an Asian
> Biblical epic
> and language screams
> off sign after sign
> of big bold Chinese characters
> when it's not defunct
> Disney characters on
> sheets and towels
> t-shirts and jeans Š
>
> But taste:
> 'not spicy' we yell,
> 'hold the chillies'
> They burn us anyway
> lips tongues throat
> noodles swimming
> in soup,
> a fish flaking
> in boiling water -
> Chinese peach
> crunchy as a potato,
> tasty as grapes
> off the vine.
>
> Sound off!
> Where's the
> Volume knob?!
> Fireworks, goddamn,
> 6 am or 10pm
> they drown out
> the coalmine explosions
> as a first year music student
> practises his sax
> and the American
> upstairs blasts out
> Righteous Bros
> and car horns
> truck horms
> van horns
> scooter horns
> beep blast and honk
> dawn to dusk.
>
> Hold your noses!
> We're going down the street
> where they've pissed
> and thrown out
> their washing water
> soapsuds and leftover noodles
> The pavement sags
> and your feet open
> the sewer smells
> as you move
> the slabs it's
> a good thing when
> you only smell
> the sulphur in the air
> it cleanses
> the nostrils Š
>
> And when you
> walk on a loose tile
> the ground flips
> squirty brown juice
> up the back of
> your sandaled ankle.
> When you stop for traffic
> strangers touch you
> to see if that white skin
> is real Š and
> rain dribbles off
> the edge of
> awnings and umbrellas
> right down
> your neck Š
> you are
> damp all day
> and all night
> your skin
> itches from
> mosquito bite.
>
>
> Linfen To quote Peter Sellers,
> 'Time has passed by this remote little village
> And so shall we.'
>
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