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Meeting
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116 Meeting I met a man yesterday On the walkway By the park We tried to talk But he spoke a different dialect He was from the Mainland He said That was why He didn’t qualify for welfare With a withered face and yellowed teeth Thinking or not thinking Of the next meal or the next shelter How dare I Find value to reside Only in the works of the human intellect Hopscotch down the Corridor Fill the parasitic gaps With guttural plosives Grind your aesthetic principles On the fulcrum of necessity Measure Li Po’s moon And compare it with Donne’s sublunaries Come and join the fray Ducdame ducdame ...