Orient Espresso

Nachtblume - Nightflower 60 x 50 cm - acryl/spraypaint/ink

CHANGE IN THE WEATHER

Confucius say that Charley Chan wore make-up and fake eye lids.

There are said to be ten thousand things that offend

so why not start with Asia and work our way westward?

The accent didn’t work either, more Assyrian

than Manchurian, and while watching I had the urge

to touch your breasts. They looked so soft. And then

we ate an envelope of some deceptively tasty chemical product.

The rest, as they say, is a blank. What you don’t know about me

(and if you did would increase your affection eight-fold at least)

is that I worship willow trees and would like to spend my afternoons

beneath one of them, composing poetry, smoking weed,

and chatting up the pretty things giggling

vacantly by the River of White Cranes.

I would turn into a Chinese poem

by a defrocked monk (one of those fabled

transformations making it possible for us to grasp  

how backwards and forwards are essentially the same) and we

would dance in the sunlight (music from the 60’s and 70’s)

and drink rice wine and eat sweet and sour

while arguing bitterly in the cold shadows of Taishan.

Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 1

played by Alessio Nanni