Bamboo Leaves

THAILAND A multi-layered world. Disabled beggars with plastic cups, a swimming pool filled with ice to celebrate New Year's Day; ghosts, Spirit Doctors, mediums, Buddhist monks...... Everywhere, temples thunder their disenchanting message that this teeming world, its glamour, excitement and misery, is impermanent, not-self and suffering.


DYING RACES OF MANKIND
When the rich see the very poor

they know it is time

to buy their valuables.

Cheaply.
This ancient people

were driven out of Tibet

by the Tibetans,

out of China by the Chinese

and out of Burma

by the Burmese.
Ah Kah people are very poor

and cannot offer much resistance

to economic assistance.

They make exquisite silver jewellery

and headdresses.

Treasure hunters

have been buying them.

Cheaply.
Ah Kah people have bright shining souls.

Christian missionaries

have been buying them.

Cheaply.