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this country once passions

and ambitions spiral to the stars

barbarians and moralists

galloped into the fray.

its multi-faceted poets'

drunken lines echo

heartfelt cries of builders

who carried slabs up mountains,

crafty empress tying ropes

round people's bellies to stifle revolts,

and palace butchers who

devoured manhood

for the king's womenfolks,

female infants' unkind fate with mother's towels.

yet this record it shows

with pride of birth numbers.

the verses of drunken poets

that lent a paradise for

a moment's escape from these dungeons of madness

the gifts of Li Bai, Su Tong Po...