ALL THINGS MUST PASS: Some reflections on transience

	The makeup has faded
	The paper is torn
	Mould now eats
	at the edges

	A barren stucco dry wall
	reveals its true form

	With surface paint
	baked in heat
	these poster-girls
	parody their former beauty:

	Mummified
	they've become
	Shaolin nuns whispering:
	Suǒyǒu de shìqíng bìxū tōngguò



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from _Pan-Asian Pulses: Poetry, Art, and Dialogs about Asia_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: An image of a time-worn poster in downtown Taipei and poem about evanescence.
KEYWORDS: transience, inevitable decay, existence and ephemerality, peeling surfaces

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 2016 in New Taipei, Taiwan ≜ Finished: 2018 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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