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HOLD OFF, MORE STUFF, AND THE HMONG AMONGST IT
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TIGERS
by
HARTMANN WALLIS
Listen up, tigers, forget this sky,
There’s always other suns and passing
Satellites, and nights when golden eyes
Illuminate the space between your ears.
Don’t let legs take control
Of what a tail will or cannot do,
Hold safe every dream that comes
To stripe the consciousness of gnomes.
And tiger, tell old Blake, “Go fuck!”
It was paws, not feet, in ancient times
That walked in pastures far from England’s,
And prowl forever in better minds.
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WALLOWING
by Wilson Russell
Who is what, for which and to whom?
How are the moments come and gone?
Has the antelope too far to run?
Answer all the above, one by one,
Then retire to the suitcase of your night
For delight, onto untoward comments,
Hope, despair, a short-time love affair,
Higher ideals, lower care, so wheels
May sun by sun cause days to crawl
For them, forward, for you, to excite
Fashion, passion, and my own sweet tooth.
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HMONG PEOPLE
Following WWII, the Hmong became involved in the civil war of Laos which saw
them divided into two camps: those who supported the Pathet Lao under the
leadership of Faydang Lobliayao and those who sided with the Royal Lao
Government under Touby Lyfoung and later Gen. Vang Pao. Following the
establishment of the Lao PDR in 1975, close to 200,000 Hmong fled to refugee
camps in Thailand and were later resettled in various countries in the West such
the United States (with an estimated 150,000), France (7,000), French Guyana
(2,000), Australia (1,600), Canada (600) and Argentina (500). These consisted
mainly of families of Hmong military personnel who served as Royal Lao Army
troops or as members of the so-called CIA secret army. A further 30,000 remain
in Thailand today as illegal residents or Thai citizens.
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HMONG EMBROIDERY showing life in the home country 
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MARKET FORCES WHOM
A SHORT PROSE POEM by the
amazing Miss MARCELLA SPRAGUE
The institutions dominating world trade, guided by the free market crazed
administrations in the USA, reckon that markets always make things come out
for the best for everybody – so don’t touch them. Through the World Trade
Organisation they have tried to force poor countries to abolish subsidies, tariffs and
protection. The rich (fundamentally Christian) nations' theorists try to push this
view on poor nations where children live and die drinking shit-polluted water,
sleeping under discarded boxes. Yet, over the past hundred years or more,
all the big success stories of emerging economies have got rich as a result of
government assistance to selected industries and involvement in the market.
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 HMONG EMBROIDERY showing the expulsion over the Mekong |
 STARTS LIKE THIS, FINISHES UP WITH A ROOM FULL OF KIDS LIKE >>>>>> |
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