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European Airfields

Shanghai condemned lane house | Photo by David Perry A cold air fire
Jenson is a name
meaning SON OF JEN
we are architecturally
accelerated it’s
retarded growth
for a full five
quarters in just one
day a report
sharpshooters up
in Misrata
the news is of a man
alone against meddling
in the internal affairs
of any news at all
aside from long
longing shots of planes 
launching from carriers 
lifting off from those
European airfields 
an exercise daily 
as tai chi or checkers 
and half a pack 
of cigarettes 
in the pocket 
park’s retired comrades,
guards, granny chatter

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One in a series of dailies written at head-speed en route to the office on Shanghai’s 10 Line, usually somewhere between the Shanghai Library and the Hongqiao Lu stops around 8:30 in the morning or so. Sometimes I’ll post them here. The name of the series is Towers.