S. K. Kelen Place Poems
- 1. Thousand Star Hotel, Hanoi
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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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