Their black feet point heavenward;
Organs hanging from meat hooks;
Dangling entrails;
Pigs' heads staring blindly at Buddhist temples,
Where ghost money ash floats from ornate furnaces, and
Incense wafts serenely,
Honoring ancestors.
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Buy and sell, buy and sell...
Old women in bamboo hats
Balancing vegetables on shoulder poles,
Straight and strong like scales of justice;
They need no license here to sell their goods,
And few are homeless;
Beggars here lack arms and legs,
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