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A Landscape

Quaint crumbling yellow tower blocks. Heaps of trash and traffic choked streets. Geckos smiling sweetly on the wall. Cockroaches and rats in the background. Two children. One mischievous toddler and one innocent baby. My wife in the distance looking away. A middle aged Asian man drinking, scolded by is wife and mother in law. My wife in the distance looking away. A middle aged Asian man drinking, scolded by is wife and mother in law. School aged children laughing and crying. A laptop in a lonely dark room. Piles and piles of prescription drugs: tramadol , codeine, valium, ritalin. Tubes of corticosteroid and moisturizer creams. Jolly fat men in their 30s drinking bia hoi, smoking endless cigs. A rock band plays to an inebriated crowd. Sunlit mountains. Limestone karsts. Emerald rice fields on straight flat roads heading on forever with a fat sunset overseeing the lazy water buffalo wallowing. The faces of old friends growing hazy. A gaggle of women, enraged or sobbing. School aged children laughing and crying. A heavy lidded eye dropping a tear into a panic stricken and bloodshot one Aeroplanes heading over the vast sea. My late middle aged parents smiling stupidly. Various friends smile A girl looks on with pity, flanked by a hard faced man in a polo shirt.
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