Emily Severance

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Upwardly Mobile in Li Jiang

A man has slung a gutter from his bedroom window

Across the first story roof.

At midnight he cracks his window,

whizzes into the moonlit trough.

At dawn he watches the golden sun rise, his neighbors

Slide around to shadowy outhouses,

His amber pee slip towards tourist sandals.