Pankam village,
Home to Palaung people,
cultivating tea,
for drinking and nationally celebrated
fermented tea leaf salad
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Farmers harvest plants
every fifteen days,
Communal clay steamers and drying area,
unusable during wet season,
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School house,
equipped with notebooks and whiteboards,
unlike southern slates.
Four teachers, one classroom
Teaching English, Math, Burmese
Students rush out,
Interrogate
"Where are you from?
Are you happy in Burma?"
without understanding answers
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My conversation-starting question,
confuses the shy teacher
Teach! encourages KL
The Scot sings Ring around Roses
Different tune and lyrics
My over thought choice:
If you're happy and you know it
YOU ARE READING
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