This Brick: a Found Poem
It took an artist a hundred days to suck enough
pollutants out of the Beijing air to make a brick.
Killing takes place in the mainly Muslim
region of Xinjiang. 'Terrorism' is to blame.
A politician in Great Britain quotes
Chairman Mao's Little Red Book
while near West Lake McDonald's
opens a new hundred-seat branch.
A hundred yoga lovers, caught on drone footage,
exercise on Hunan's glass bridge.
Scientists discover pandas make sounds
while courting. Roars, squeaks, barks.
Meanwhile, it took more than three decades
for Chinese families to be allowed a second babe.
December 2015
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