<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392447" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Visits in Beijing</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The buildings are stacked for miles in rows along the wide main street <br>All new, erected in the last five or ten years. It must have been a frenzy <br>Under grey skies heavy with pollution or mist or fog we pass Tiananmen Square <br>And reach a cultural centre carpeted in red with dragon clocks and chandeliers </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I acquire the gift of a rolled silk tapestry, a huge name tag in English and Mandarin, and then a guide and an interpreter to direct me to my place, to where <br>at every moment <br>The plan calls for me to be. I sit, my capped bone china cup of tea is filled <br>And as I sip, topped up again. My turn comes in the playlist, my microphone switched on for me <br>I deliver speech, then off we go for group photo, every seat pre-prepared with a name tag attached <br>Over coffee and sweet bean cakes I engage the student girls who guide and interpret, their real concern <br>Is for my viewing of historical sites, for advance of cooperation and the march of social harmony. <br> <br> Apartment blocks emerging from the heavy haze<br>Ever more Ring Roads as migrants swell the city<br>Cars replace bicycles over the years<br>On the way to visit the Great Wall<br>At Bada Ling, snowfall around the feet.<br>I am freezing up high in the early morning! <br>We were the first, before the daily groups of students came.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Climbed down gingerly, got inside. Ordered cabbage, beancurd and noodle soup.<br>Five women gathered round to watch me eat. My local guide<br>Waited... until we found a KFC.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Bana">Frank Bana</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392447" data-title="Visits in Beijing de Frank Bana" data-description="The buildings are stacked for miles in rows along the wide main street All new, erected in the last five or ten years. It must have been a frenzy Under grey skies heavy with pollution or mist or fog we pass Tiananmen Square And reach a cultural..."></div> </div> </div>

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