this country once passions reigned <br />barbarians and moralists <br />galloped into the fray. <br />its multi-faceted poets' <br />drunken lines echo <br />heartfelt cries of builders <br />who carried slabs up mountains, <br />crafty empress tying ropes <br />round people's bellies to stifle revolts, <br />and palace butchers who <br />devoured manhood <br />for the king's womenfolks, <br />female infants' unkind fate with mother's towels. <br />yet this record it shows <br />with pride of birth numbers. <br />the verses of drunken poets <br />that lent a paradise for <br />a moment's escape from these dungeons of madness <br />the gifts of Li Bai, Su Tong Po...<br /><br />john tiong chunghoo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/drunken-lines/
