ISBN-13: 9780995634619 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016
THAILAND A multi-layered world. Disabled beggars with plastic cups, a swimming pool filled with ice to celebrate New Year's Day; ghosts, Spirit Doctors, mediums, Buddhist monks...... Everywhere, temples thunder their disenchanting message that this teeming world, its glamour, excitement and misery, is impermanent, not-self and suffering. FLOWERS OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT A woman looks up
from her place
among the dirt and pollution
of Silom Road and joins
her palms together in salutation.
Someone has put two one-baht coins
in her plastic cup
(without looking at her face).
One hundred yards away,
The British Club is going to cool
their swimming pool
with ice for a Polar Swim
at 11.00 a.m. on New Year's Day.
"Free of Charge. Free hot mulled wine."
(There is a double crash barrier
with uniformed security guards
to protect would-be polar swimmers.)
At the Bangkok Motor Show,
an as-white-as-snow
Bugatti Veyron is A la carte,
escorted by swirling girls
in white satin evening gowns.
253 mph top speed,
turbocharged, all souped-up.
To squeeze out
all its growling sounds,
you will need
to take 165 million baht
out of your plastic cup.