NHA TRANG I

EVENING NEWS

11 pm
cheap hotel soap
Japanese music on the TV screen-
it doesn't matter;
i don't understand what they're saying-
but i know.
all the guitars tell the same stories-
all white bedsheets hide the same stains.
i hear that New Orleans is sinking
in a sea of sorrow and salt
but the news was in French.
ou es-tu, mon chere?
winds from the oceans have
brought me wanderlust,
but this ocean is new-
it's still a couple oceans apart from
you.
ou es,
ou es-tu?

11 pm
Nha Trang

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SOUL SEARCHING II

one hotel room
across the pacific
tell me what you are
searching for
and i'll tell you
what i have found

Nha Trang
9/1/06