The Great Bronze Age of China


first of all 2 dimes in yr pocket 
wall-pictures of mines they dug 
the treasures out calendars pitted 
green pots & wine jugs under plexi-
glass made Chinese brunch

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rude girls with radios in their ear 
cast bronze shadows inlaid with copper 
& ivory skin noted they must in their 
prime have been polished ceremonials 
that sacrifice

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feathers on the stairs 
stone warriors propped up with their 
horses rode stone follicles for hair 
a jade phallus bridled & pitched 
forward

'which accounts for their stance

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poolside 
with bobbed tails

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swum.