Appeasing an angry goddess
August 11th 2005 Colombo-Kandy Railroad Haiku
Rattling through jungles
Heads bouncing like souvenir dolls
Lost in sad thoughts
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I can feel the proximity of the jungle in Kandy. Monkeys scramble across my roof, the bird calls that wake me in the morning sound like auditions for a Tarzan movie, and there are columns of ants streaming across every wall. Even if Buddhists were allowed to use a
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