by Lu “Reed ABCs” Wei
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As the wIntér oLympics cLOSE for 2022,
the Covid Bubble popped, and Xi Jinping’s Beijing fling’s through,
the teams returned, some to their lands where real snow oft occurs,
remembering the food and quarantines with heartfelt stirs.
Though typical concerns and controversies happened still,
false starts, missed calls, falls, dope disquals, and jumpsuits on the hills,
the WINter Games participants were “free” and far from strife,
Tibet, HongKong and Xinjiang. There was no loss of life.
Bing Dwen Dwen, frozen in his space clothes, with his constant smile,
embodying ice purity, has waved good-bye in style.
Lu “Reed ABCs” Wei is poet of China, an anagrammatic heteronym of Bruce Dale Wise. “Reed ABCs” is his art name (hào).