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Sheung Shui Pastoral Three figures, One man and two women, Appeared, With white hats on their backs. Three black figures, Etched against a tawny sunset, By a country road, With plastic slippers on. Their new hats in Tightly woven straw, Milky white against their black peasant suits. Clean and inhuman They pressed forward With methodical tread Into the sunset Like figures splashed on some bill board Advertising acrylic colours. Paints that do not mix or blend, That cannot hide the crudity of flat monochromes. (One must not puke at cheap adverts Seeing how well they can mirror life) One woman held the man’s wrist For support. She seemed to limp A little: the register of a limp, Not its helplessness. She showed That self-reliance Old peasant women sometimes have. On they went Their measured way From nowhere to nowhere. What secret is yours, You dark people who follow the sun? ...

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