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landmines and lemongrass (Free verse) by Caducus
In âNovotelâ blue
A temple French smokes,
This âMarlboroâ suckling
fans thin Buddhaâs
to good time Englishmen
in Tuc Tuc plumes.
Last night
in Jos stick vapors
prayer smoke transported her,
to acres of lemongrass,
bowing to her
as she ran in zig zags,
the way she was taught
in the skull years.
Fields are curbs now
bringing bartering shadows
of vulgar dialects,
back alley exaltations.
His thigh hairs now lemongrass
from Khymer rouged hands.
Two thousand prayers away
a field of lemongrass
will be etched in zig zags
her thighs will tremble
like pollen over Choeung Ek.
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