Image: Jason Wong: ducks on the run | Sa Pa, Vietnam | (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Vietnam

Step ashore
show your face
in some place
you don’t know
and can’t trace
in your maps
where folks gape
at the clucks
and the troops
in the trucks
where babies chew gum
and kids hawk their mothers
and bum butts and bread
and nothing you’ve read
prepares you for the dread
because the dark side
of the moon
couldn’t hide
a wilder tune.

Tyrone Graham for Written Tales

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