New Century

[poliphilo]

I was feeling low so I watched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and it cheered me up. That movie takes me back to the happy time around the beginning of the century- before the neocons took us back to the glory days of their imperial youth- when, briefly, anything seemed possible.

Here's a poem I wrote early in 2000.

NEW CENTURY

  
I never had a plan.

I did some things that seemed cool

And when I got bored I did something else.

I’m always looking for something new.

 

Right now I’m mad for Michelle Yeoh;

It’s cool how she flies in that Ang Lee movie.

I wonder we haven’t achieved that yet.

I think we will, this century.

 

I’m mad about this century.

I want to read some books about China

I want to fly like Michelle Yeoh.


I never did read those books about China. Other things- 9/11, Afganistan, Iraq- intervened. But we'll get that mood back- won't we?

 

Comments

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I like to read Pearl Buck's Chinese books, particularly Dragon Seed and the Good Earth. How beautiful she makes the simple life seem, and then of course she ruins it with war or concubines...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We've been getting lots of documentaries about how polluted modern China is. If you can believe the filmed evidence the sun never shines in Beijing.