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
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
