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  Susan posted on 12/17/2004
  Chicago Impression
  
  Lying still, let the citylights be the starlights
  Let the mysterious Jazz fill the room
  Bring me back to my senses
  My past, my home
  
  Night train swims silently,
  Seclusively, like a giant anaconda
  Creeping into people's lives
  Creeping into people's dreams
  
  Into the darker side of the town
  Dim light hovering over the dining table
  Over unfinished dishes and a beer bottle
  The abandoned center stage
  
  On the busy Michigan Avenue a ghost wanders around
  Can't rest in peace, his tombstone taken from
  The south pacific to the wall of the trendy skyscraper
  Along with Russian, Egyptian, German collections
  A fashionable antique, an exotic touch
  
  "Your father and mother miss you forever", It reads
  Who was he? What happened?
  What tragedy hides behind?
  The pedestrians come and go,
  straight faces, couldn't care less
  
  From the graffiti decorated highrise a young man looks out
  Beautiful, sculpted torso
  Framed in the decayed window
  A perfect portrait of
  Time's cruel joke
  
  

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  Re: Chicago Impression
  #1 鍏�鍗佷竴瀛� posted on 12/17/2004
  
  
  I like this one too.
  
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  Re: Chicago Impression
  #2 drinking posted on 12/17/2004
  
  
  I'm in Chicago. It is a great city indeed.
  
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  Re: susan
  #3 鐜涢泤 posted on 12/17/2004
  
  
  susan自谦说她是个housewife。哪知道一出手就是重拳。
  
  我这两天开车的时候就在想写一篇小文，暂时叫“housewife的反击”。
  
  很多女作家其实都是housewife，美国女作erica Jung 就是在做housewife的时候，实在厌倦了，就开始写小说，一鸣惊人，第一本处女作《fear of flying》让她不用再做housewife了。
  
  还有其他很多的例子。 写出来给大家看。
  
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  Re: susan
  #4 鍏�鍗佷竴瀛� posted on 12/17/2004
  
  
  第一本处女作
  

  
  玛雅，她的第二本处女作是什么题目来着？:-)
  
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  Re: susan
  #5 thesunlover posted on 12/17/2004
  
  
  骨头里挑鸡蛋。
  不知道现在中国女人一生能作许多次处女吗？
  
  

  八十一子 wrote:
  

  第一本处女作
  

  玛雅，她的第二本处女作是什么题目来着？:-)
  
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  Re: susan
  #6 susan posted on 12/17/2004
  
  
  Thanks for the compliments, 81 and Maya.
  
  Drinking, have you noticed the skyscraper close to the sears tower decorated with, among other things, a piece of a Chinese commoner's tombstone? I always wonder why.
  
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  Re: susan
  #7 adagio posted on 12/18/2004
  
  
  Seriously, try New Yorker or some poetry magazine, though not my personal favorite, this type of poems is very much in line with the modern urban life and with the trend of modern poetry writing. They are into the publishers' and the editors' favor I reckon.
  
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  Re: susan
  #8 drinking posted on 12/19/2004
  
  
  susan wrote:
  Thanks for the compliments, 81 and Maya.
  Drinking, have you noticed the skyscraper close to the sears tower decorated with, among other things, a piece of a Chinese commoner's tombstone? I always wonder why.
  

  
  That is a funny and good-looking building. I always wonder what the hell it is.
  

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