so unlike the Danube with its pride

so unlike the Danube with its pride
its Kepler and Holy Roman seat
its Schikaneder Magic Flute
its Palm Sunday ass ceremony
its Rheingold Hapsburg
Walhalla wax museum's 
thirty-year of war tribute

here near the Han of Taichung
nothing is so shock and awe
a cell phone store clerk's 
child almost drowned at work
a drunken uncle was a jerk
fell off a bridge he cycled o'er
not by River Han be killed

Japanese colonists near the Han and
Mainland Chinese Kuomintang
lined up and shot Taiwanese whose
swept bodies strait into the breeze
died of rape and left for fleas
unlike homeboy Rommel's
Danube forest funeral

5-23-15