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Yang Li

This Poem Only Took Two Minutes To Write

it is now 3 o’clock in the morning tonight in Beijing they are moving people with SARS to Xiaotang Mountain, north of the city when I finished writing the above poem I walked over to a window and gazed down at the quiet Third Ring Road not knowing whether the moving was over or not

THIS POEM ONLY TOOK TWO MINUTES TO WRITE

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This Poem Only Took Two Minutes To Write

it is now 3 o’clock in the morning tonight in Beijing they are moving people with SARS to Xiaotang Mountain, north of the city when I finished writing the above poem I walked over to a window and gazed down at the quiet Third Ring Road not knowing whether the moving was over or not

This Poem Only Took Two Minutes To Write

it is now 3 o’clock in the morning tonight in Beijing they are moving people with SARS to Xiaotang Mountain, north of the city when I finished writing the above poem I walked over to a window and gazed down at the quiet Third Ring Road not knowing whether the moving was over or not
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