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4. Dim sum

They bring
the steamer baskets
and the Tsingtao beer
without eye-contact. Stone
faced they look
beyond the fractured
arches, glass bricks, me
and pseudo—(yes I felt
them) Chinese antiqued carvings.

So I look too
and add carrara marble
painted anaglypta, chrome
and figured axminster to
my yum char lunch.