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Notions Of A Lone Backpacker

from Chai: Travel Poems by Marc Nair feat. Neon & Wonder

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Notions of a Lone Backpacker

I wanted to find a postcard Bali,
with untainted acres of padi, children
chasing ducks across narrow mud banks.

I saw myself stepping into light
that lifted me through rice terraces
twirling with parasols of saffron.

Instead, I’m brought to a field framing
villas of the Viceroy Hotel, where tourists
wake on water-borne beds, having dreamt

of rice stalks peeking between pillows.
Outside, women with oiled hair pulled tight
balance their baskets, winding through

narrow streets with shops that pledge
their future in culottes and tank tops.
Once bare-breasted, they worked

the fields, hip-slinging babies. Now, they
haggle on sidewalks over factory-made bags.
I never imagined I would be counting out

the hours in bottles of Bintang, while the locals
shade their eyes from the glare of sunsets,
as children race after the old ice-cream truck

when it clatters past the padi fields
into the Viceroy, although
it never once slows down for them.

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from Chai: Travel Poems, released April 20, 2012

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