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TAIPEI DAY

Dawn awakening
On tired molecules;  bumping
Moving filth about
Fatigued by their noxious burden
 
Glory dust
settles on the ugly cities
Empty imitations  … Mei gwo in microcosm
Cultural suicide the price of power
 
Midday heats
Gray tiled rectangles
encasing the stifled creativity of a people controlled
Inside, their dumb dissent builds
muffled roar of genius lost to the dictatorship of the uncontested median
 
Swallowing frustration, stoic tired eyes watch
Perspiring overcrowded buses
Haul their human burden homeward
 
Nameless faceless blue-suited briefcased
pomaded peacocks
strut the streets
stepping out of sleek status symbols
imperviously impersonal market managers
pinpoint precisely the price of slaves
and dictate the desires
of last year’s average family
 
Sunset reflects
The ongoing madness
Oranged by an unnatural air
Night approaches
 
Grey dusk
drapes itself like a king’s mantle
on the shoulders of a deformed jester
belching blackness
scurrying trucks impatiently deposit their noxious burden
which settles on the tired molecules
bumping;  moving filth about

Written in April, 1979   Copyright © Catherine G. Tripp

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  • Home
  • About
  • Poems
    • Binary Shield © 2014
    • China Doll © 1974
    • Code Vision © 2014
    • HAIKU COLLECTION © 1976, 2016
    • Hair of the Dog © 2017
    • I Just Endure © 2014
    • Indian Flower © 1975
    • It's just there © 2017
    • Lines on a Tiburon Ferry 2002
    • Listening to Amy © 2017
    • Mine © 1977
    • Reflections in a Photograph © 1976
    • Starving Abroad © 1978
    • Taipei Day © 1979
    • The City © 1982
    • The Pain is Constant © 2013
  • Holiday Letters
  • Loan Goddess Wisdom
  • Short Stories
    • SOMA VAMP
    • Banking Stardom
    • Her Name Was Tera
    • Lake Sebring
    • The Making of an Empress
  • M. E. Pleasant