Showing posts with label Taiwan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taiwan. Show all posts

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Fire Cracker: Magpie Tale 21, in 55 words

Chinese firecracker??
In 1970 Taiwan
we lived in a house
near the rice paddies.
Farmers used
their beloved and gentle
water buffalo
to plow the fields.
These beasts dropped dung
on the road.
"Ewwwwww".
We were spoiled rotten
American kids.
We would
put Chinese firecrackers
deep inside
the buffalo dung,
light a match,
and run like hell.
"Ewwwwww".