toast

    my small family
    stretched from the snow to the palm
    states of the States of America and
    my childhood friend
    in the Sweden winter night
    will celebrate the holidays each
    with their own party  thoughts
    crossing the continent and
    the atlantic ocean  twelve
    centuries ago chinese
    t'ang dynasty poets fond of
    the meeting and the parting moments poured
    wine into their verses  around
    1990 rappers would
    greet each other in the middle
    of the pc and the work station
    screens  this year
    jesse rider has mentioned me
    and other rappers in his
    poems  before the year ends
    i'll raise my glass to him
    across the electronic river
 
 

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       1995-12-17/18