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After the Fall An afternoon storm has hit the Pearl of the Orient & stripped nearly everybody. Bandoliers, miniskirts, tennis shoes, fatigue jackets, combat boots— city colors are bruised & polyester suits limp down side streets. Even the ragpicker is glad to let his Australian bush hat with the red feather float away. Something deeper than sadness litters the alleys like the insides kicked out of pillows. The old mama-san who always collected scraps of yellow paper, cigarette butts, & matchsticks through field-stripped years hides under her cardboard box. Cowboys park new Harleys along Lam Son Square & disappear with gold in their mouths. Dzung leaves the Continental Hotel in a newspaper dress. Hoping for a hard rain, she moves through broken colors flung to the ground, mixing up the words to Trinh's "Mad Girl's Love Song55 & "Stars Fell on Alabama,55 trying to bite off her tongue. S3 ...

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