S. K. Kelen Place Poems

• 1. Thousand Star Hotel, Hanoi
  I.
  
  Over the road from the three star Galaxy Hotel is our hotel,
  the old park on Phan Dinh Phung Street,
  ...
• 2. The Gods Ash Their Cigarettes
  Death stepped out of the television
  just long enough to catch us off guard
  and we mill around a crematorium's lawns.
  ‘I saw her on Friday, now she's gone.'
  ...
• 3. Mekong
  Happy Viet Cong and their children
  live now on the Mekong Delta-cone hats
  smiles-motors' chug is the river's heartbeat
  and the river here's deep and wide as the sea.
  ...
• 4. Interrupt This Program (liberty Lotus)
  Of badly behaved humans and pallid dust-
  Split screen shows tall buildings in New York
  Make good targets for aeroplanes
  And the Pentagon burns like any other place.
  ...
• 5. Ba Vi
  The clouds are always there
  ringing three peaks
  busy with lightning &
  thunder grumbling-
  ...

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