Thinking you are wealthy is wealthy.
Let the Chinese and U.S. economies become one!
The suitor, his billion dollar haircut oily and perfumed,
waits in the towering parlor, eyed by portraits of torturers.
Do not talk of capitalism and communism!
Mother will faint. The world is knit
in more intricate ways than anyone knows.
I was launched into the one world
of opium and pain. Poems trail after.
Beethoven suffered so that Brahms could be.
Put the last and the first in your poetry.
Fast speed trains need romance. The wreck
began with pleasantries all around.
The trip was long. And love was all I found.