Chapter 1

Produced by Sorour Imani.

The Long Necked Bottle

Paul Cameron Browne

Illustrated by Jon Vlakos

Swamp Press Mcmlxxx

Copyright Paul Cameron Brown

The River Cuts A Channel

People with money but no fortune or stomach for the life of an albatross, watch him soar on self-made wings, fetch the dingy redness of morning's first catch with a long necked bottle he calls the captain

Chinatown-I

As they are crawling up to you think of Angor Wat the sweating walls cold in stone steam broiling in the jungle; or, that most ancient of men, the Chinese beggar the thin rinds of his skin like scented apples or kimonos slipped off to dry

Clandestine Operation

The most appropriate comment, besides pig knuckles on racks & rabbits skewered on prongs or the Chinese lettering playing tricks with your Occidental eyes, is the Breakfast at Tiffany's approach to suffering-- that ambience of egg rolls & fortune cookies dashed aside with mild dosages of rose-petal tea amid such trappings and parodies of the human experiment left stammering in the too crowded sun

Colophon

This little volume was hand set in Kennerley monotype printed on Gutenberg Laid in an edition of 200 hardcover & 150 soft-cover copies. This is copy 223. For those who wonder, Angor Wat is the lost civilization of Cambodia. May 28 Oneonta, New York ER JM

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