Friday, August 23, 2013

Butterflies


chinatown is a destination
chinatown is a journey

twenty-four blocks gently sloping Nob Hill into FiDi
two paths flat for walking Union Square to North Beach

parallel streets a single block apart
side-by-side cultures a world apart

Grant St flows with travelers from foreign lands
Stockton St grinds with immigrants from china

bright colors of souvenirs filling up windows
muted colors of laundry hanging from windows

casual drifting from place to place
determined plodding from here to there

an american/chinese vision of chinese fantasy
a chinese-american vision of american reality

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