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Brief Lives China Marks 2013

p. 1
top: Bzzzt? Zzzzzzzz, bzz! Szzzn zhzzzz…

bottom: And they didn’t care if you watched?

p. 2
After a summer apart,
The two friends have
A lot to say to each other.
She tells spicy stories
About her days
among the flowers,
sex and death abounding.
He is very glad that
he took the trouble
to learn her language!

p. 3
Have a wonderful time, Honey! Bring her home safe, young man!

p. 4
He raised her
from infancy.
She grew up into
a lovely, high-spirited
young woman who
did well at school.
But tonight,
As the band plays,
She wants only to dance.

p. 5
top: Amanda?

bottom: Oh my God! It’s him! What am I going to do?

p. 6
After years of traveling,
She returned to the States
For a more settled life.
But a crazy Recombinant
she met in Spain
Could never forget her
And swam the Atlantic
to find her. His passion
excites her, but
it also frightens her.

p. 7
top: Let me tell your fortune, lady! It won’t cost much…

p. 8
At the local spa
for body work, she meets
a blind fortune-teller
who knows so much
about her, big and little
things that she never told
anyone, not even
her husband, that
she is dumbfounded.
How does he know?
Will he tell anyone else?

p. 9
middle left: Yes Yes

p. 10
Unfit for normal life,
he plans to rule the world
and to that end,
travels solo except for
yes-men and thugs
hired as needed.
Because he is so
funny-looking,
people don’t take him
seriously until he starts
talking. Videos of his
speeches have gone viral.

p. 11
This book of Lives
began as a lark
but then turned dark,
Some lives, like knives,
cut deep.