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First Stop: Frankfurt
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44 First Stop: Frankfurt Fractured vision kaleidoscopic Cubist perspectives cut the al fresco café. Between waking and sleeping the eye catches the split planes of cups and plates. Fifteen hours away lay Hong Kong. Two minutes away lay street sleepers some on mattresses under bridges some behind tin hovels complete with hanging geranium. Vase Indifferent colours half defined Water-lilies largely submerged Straining for clarity Discontented with half-knowledge Thin net-work of capillaries Course down opalescent glaze Seeking the biscuit bed Cutting into the heart of things ...