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Category: Poems
As of October 2011, I’d posted over three hundred poems on this site, including many sonnets and search poems, as well as numerous poems that didn’t make it into chapbooks such as Abendland and Morgenland. I then ceased posting poems here, choosing instead to distribute them via my poem of the week newsletter. Then I stopped doing that too. Every now and then I post a poem here … but not as often as I’d like.
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Visit Laos Year
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visit laos & bring your wheelbarrow pretend this isn’t communism gone nuts ignore the poorly-organised protesters turn a blind eye to the fall of the wall incarcerate yourself in a capitalist prison you’re lucky to have been arrested here now there’s nothing left between you & the socialist state’s caring attitude towards intellectuals & slogan-dodgers…
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Tintin & the Plain of Jars
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Nothing to report as usual save a badly bruised rump boy the Lao sure know how to build a road! as for the jeep well the driver was adamant that i ride in the back for fear of bandits who as usual failed to materialise (as did Captain Haddock – having discovered the medicinal value…
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The Gums of Vientiane
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standing at attention a column of white gums awaits its commander’s final orders – over the top! down the embankment! secure all garden plots & fish traps! then down the mekhong we go – all in a row sir yes sir drowning at attention sir ye loyal diggers /saplings planted when? & for what strange…
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Glossary
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baht (t): thai unit of currency (in 1999 1 baht= AUD 0.25) chao le (t): sea gypsies chao phraya (t): the river that flows through bangkok cock & football (l): a lao brand of rolling papers farang (t): any western (read: white) person or tourist karen (t): one of the indigenous hill tribes of northern…