Thailand Fluorescence Revisited
the eyes are looking in and out simultaneously
beauty meets poverty.
Light penetrating flesh
arms in neutral
lips in drive
caution akimbo,
the shadows failing to cover her humanness.
the lights make her look cold in a hot land,
where power is brutal,
pleasures frugal.
She sees a ghost she cannot quite hold:
as her senses drink it in,
as her lips accentuate and position themselves for a kiss that resists the poison of fate,
as she hungers for patterns of paradise to permeate the street.
her eyes mirrors in need of mercy
reflecting whoever's soul happens to look in,
following a momentary trajectory of beauty.
The light making it easy to see
that the shadows fail to cover her humanness.
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