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Matthew Lubin
Matthew Lubin is a proud Jersey native who attempts to teach English to
children in Shenzhen, China. He speaks Chinese poorly.
Spring Festival in Shanghai, Year of the Dog, and I eat breakfast outside the subway station
I wait
outside Jing An Temple—
sunny and warm,
late-January.
A beggar sits between
the temple and me.
He plays an er hu—
accompanied by
the flowing fountain;
his song sounds like blues.
Passersby drop change
into the beggar’s bowl,
on their way
through the capitalist wealth
surrounding us
in the communism
along Nan Jing Lu.
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