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Oh Blossom

come here blossom fall down here on my lap & let me run my fingers through your delicate pink petals the way you used to like it in spring- time when you were all in bloom oh blossom remember every season is another reason to love you tender blossom...
20 Jan, 2000
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Mountains of Pai

pai bursting through the fog to fly in low across the rice paddies dumping its deadly load & setting the pond a-tremble with aftershocks the size of frogs now skipping the mountains of pai untold numbers of karen separatists pray fervently for a rain cloud to carpet bomb the...
19 Jan, 2000
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Mr Tui

mr tui you’d have to win the “safest driver in thailand” award you were a man of few words but smooth driving actions eg your easy familiarity with the nine hundred & forty two sharp corners between chiang mai & pai mr tui you knew when to sound your...
18 Jan, 2000
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Emaciated Buddha

fireworks rupture the temple on the hill’s serenity the interior’s panorama suffocated by a buddhist vision of hell flavoured with more than a dash of hindu horror – here’s a massacre of men & women sawn in half by grinning & willing fellow men & women here’s old buddha...
17 Jan, 2000
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The Boys on Thanon Lim Khong

armed with their hideouts & slingshots & smiles they gather at nightfall beside a rocky river road to compete in monied contests dodge tuk-tuks & flurries of laughter now pulling the notes from their pockets & placing them on the road’s river brown & then throwing their thongs from...
16 Jan, 2000
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Low Season, Last Days

depressed as the prices no longer deluded by smiles passing signposts kilometres coming no closer to what were once called destinations – border crossings & pass-outs different games same rules waiting for the photo-op that might make the cost of the ticket worthwhile – low season, last days &...
15 Jan, 2000
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The Kip & How to Carry It

in bundles my friend! in every pocket! stuff those notes! hang the exchange rate! just get out there & start handing it over! spend it daily! spend it gaily! but wait – there’s more! it’s all for sale! everything must go! clothes looks lifestyles - out the door! but...
14 Jan, 2000
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Under the Pavement, Laos

under the pavement, laos in dissent: a skin full of worn bones, the footprint’s masseuse, a fist full of pavements & laos under laos, the mekhong’s predictions: swallowing bombs, reeking dimly of lao beer on a menu full of laos & mekhongs under the mekhong, the current’s advance: upon...
13 Jan, 2000
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A Photographer’s Wet Dream

ah! luang prabang ancient capital unesco world heritage magnificently preserved in pristine condition please bring cameras film & kleenex for the mop-up /click! & we're off through the view-finder: monks kiddies grannies trannies ripe for developing when you get back to your secret laboratory national geographic are definitely interested...
12 Jan, 2000
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Cock & Football

cock & football! it's time to get up & don't those horny roosters know it! cock & football! cock & football! around the brown river bend here comes dawn's breaker rise & shine cock & football! cock & football! cock-a-doodle-do! it's morning once again & don't those poor hens...
11 Jan, 2000
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