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A barge adrift the Perfumed River	A
reclining beneath a parasol	B
is the courtesan Tigress waving her fan	C
barge floats past village and pagoda	D
houses and huts midst bodhi tree	E
coconut palm flame flowers	F
bamboo forest and flat green	G
leaves float in the green river	A
tangle roots and mangrove	H
In the morning she bathed in the river	A
Her black lacquer fan	C
a butterfly's deep blue wings	I
unfold a painting of a courtesan	C
poised beneath her parasol	B
keeping the rain off	J
a barge adrift the Perfumed River	A
The woman of the painting on the fan	C
fanning herself reposing on her divan	C
rocked by the river's rice green water	A
The farmers move water in the fields	K
harvest love songs	L
to give the famous courtesan	C
who sees them with affection	C
now she has her letters to attend	M
the afternoon for reading and to practise English	N
The rice rivers rock gently her divan	C
Below deck is red silk and velvet bed	O
a glass case shelving bottles of shampoo	P
from every country freshly folded towels	Q
calendars signed by football stars	R
grace the chamber's walls	S
and glowing with river's love	T
her very odalisqueness	S
she can sing the radio love tune	C
like a goddess as strong as any warrior	A
lay serenely the river's quiet raindrop plash	N
the same scene painted on her black lacquer fan	C
as the fan she is painted on	C
a courtesan beneath parasol reclining on a barge	U
rocked by the gentle river	A
She sees pirates from the ocean	C
come up the river in the eyes of business men	C
they sing from the banks of the Perfumed River	A
she is the one the tigers regard and carp swim after	A
her fan unfolds a silvery painting	V
of a lady with a fan who from her barge	U
watches farmers work the land	W
It is hot and they toil	B
all morning buffalo with moon	C
horns take a bath in mud she	N
watches them from her divan	C
the farmers and the buffalo	B
she lets fall her fan	C
and painted on it is the picture	A
a woman holding a fan	C
seated pleasingly on a barge	U
the rain falling harder on her parasol	B
and the river starting to flow	B
attending her letters she will read in the afternoon	C
and watch on the land the eternity farmers dream	X
her fan like a butterfly spreads its wings	S
to reveal a courtesan who lets fall her fan	C
it keeps going fan after fan a deep blue butterfly	B
unfolding the painted scene on the river a barge	U
where shaded by a parasol is the lady	N
watching the same lovelorn men	C
harvest rice songs the fan opens another	A
and another fans within fans until the fan	C
where in the picture above the courtesan	C
and the painted scenery	N
right up in the sky an old spirit man	C
rides the clouds in a bathtub	Y
and plays a harp sparking thunderbolts	S
a mischievous being powerful in the hands	S
of a courtesan twangs the lightning	V
as he steps cloud to cloud	Z
painted on the next fan up	A2
all the way up up through black lacquered fans	S
one after another opening	V
fans growing as they approach the world	B2
of the lady on her barge on the gently rocked divan	C
When he meets her the sky blacks out	C2
he is a cruel storm Pray Mercy	S
bless us with goddess tears on the Perfumed	D2
River hold back your blessed typhoon	C
The courtesan snaps shut her fan	C
swarms of deep blue butterflies and black moths	S
are drawn to her light	E2
the river waves rock gently her divan	C
A barge adrift the Perfumed River	A
reclining beneath a parasol	B
is the courtesan Tigress and her fan	C
barge floats by village and pagoda	D
houses and huts saluted by bodhi tree	S
coconut palm flame flowers	S
bamboo forest and flat green	C
leaves float in the green river	A
tangle roots and mangrove	H
In the morning she bathed in the river	A

S. K. Kelen

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