and now i live in santa monica

your island is worth tourist
yet, had they been there I probably wouldnt have
I guess Ive lived in the west, the mid west the far east and middle east
I guess I can say, it something i knew was mine in taiwan
I knew all the roads in the mountains
rarely took the ones with buses
I had a 250 cc little bike that
did numbers on the roads impossible
I was yelled at in a rural farm
for posing suggestively with a guava garden
I saw chicken lose its life in a plastic
wash bin at an elevation just
before bin lang gives way to bamboo
I saw faces that had never seen anything
like me
I found roads without tourists
isnt that all we ask for?

it is only when you are embedded in the alps in a potato size town like innsbruck do you only realize how many things you've taken for granted

we gasp and snap down castles and towers and extravagant buildings and crazy sculptures and and other ice cream licking tourists
begging something from history to play with and flaunt
pictures that illuminate I'VE BEEN THERE
souveiners that flash YES I'VE SEEN THAT
HAHA

when innsbruckers walk by, disregarding everything

do I do that in Taiwan?