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Open Poetry #34

Off To Find My Suzie Wong

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

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Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

0 posted 2005-01-31 11:48 PM

Off To Find My Suzie Wong

"I was an orphan until I was twenty, then a rich and beautiful lady adopted me." Humphrey Bogart in "Beat The Devil".

Life was hard but I had my dreams and those my friends were my favorite things.
At fourteen I found myself in a Giesha bath house where they were running and screaming from a cute little mouse.
At fifteen I dreamed of pretty faces in far away places...a German girl grabbed my hand and when I awoke I was a King in Amsterdam.
At sixteen I joined the circus in my dreams and then fell from the trapeze amist the crowds scream.
When I turned seventeen, thats the year I had the strangest dreams...I was in a bamboo forest in a foreign land, when an Asian princess took my hand.
I told her all I wanted of life was to be her man, upon those words that dream came to an end.
I never dreamed that dream again, I try and try but I never can, come Asian princess and take my hand.
At eighteen I dreamed there was a place called France, and when I awoke speaking perfect French,
I was in a town where the women wore no pants.
Nineteen was full of dreams, sailing ships and yellow submarines, mermaids frolicking in island scenes,
Tahitian dancers tucking me in and hula girls wanting to be my favorite friends.
Today I turned twenty while sailing to Hong Kong...I'm off to find my Suzie Wong.

JamesLee
January31
2005

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