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Lovely snapshot, Androo!
Hal
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On May 30, 2007, at 10:25 AM, andrew burke wrote:
> 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 ...
>
>
> Still milking that trip.
>
>
> Andrew
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