IMAGE: A beautiful coy woman puckering her lips and the image of some bamboo screens.

Daiki:   (gazing at the image, then half in jest) What is it with Asian women?

An-Yi:   (dispassionately) Are you trying to ask a meaningful question?

Daiki:   I mean, ahh – gee. Why are Asian women so attractive?

An-Yi:   (sighing) Do you really want to have this sort of conversation?

Chariya: (shaking his head ) Nah, let's steer clear of it . . .

SHANGHAI BABY:
Why Male Conversations Are Often Lame
& Exploring the Alchemy of Romantic Attraction

    Let us pretend
    that we love each other
    & imagine 
    human beings actually care

    Let us fantasize 
    the world is beautiful
    & conjecture about
    the value of your hair.

With enough creative imagination
almost any love pattern is possible
& when the broad wings of fantasy
encounter powerful jetstreams of desire
normal restraints become untethered
as the Jade Emperor meets the celestial princess
in a court in Jin'an near Shanxi Rd.
& ordinary stones appear as gold.

Bhäraté: (reflecting on the previous conversation) Why do so many conversations go like that?

Chariya: (shrugging his shoulders) . . . Huh? Like what?  (pausing) Oh, like that! Well, the 
         best way to be happy is to seek happiness within and stop stopping worrying about 
         external conversations. Conversations many appear to have social value, but they 
         have absolutely no inherent existential worth.

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from _Pan-Asian Pulses: Poetry, Art, and Dialogs about Asia_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  An image of a cute, pert woman and a feeble dialog and poem.
KEYWORDS: vapid conversations, Asian women, the alchemy of desire, existential worth

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 2008 in Tokyo, Japan ≜ Finished: 2021 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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