Sebastian Schloessingk

   WHITE GIRL S.E.ASIA LEG

The impression in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia,
was Slim Buddha sits, gold-leafed, in each
temple. Whilst in China and Vietnam

Fat Buddha held sway, if anything the more
perfect for it. And sometimes repose would be
for Buddha only. Don’t “sit” here please

one temple stipulated, with
an easy mastery of post-modern layering.
More solicitous in outreach was

the Bangkok Royal Palace sign Do
not trust wily strangers. Spoken as if
already squatting down alongside, arm

round shoulder but so not wily. Rather
intimate again, but less wordy,
a local woman’s opener on the beach:

fingerpoint-straight, she said ‘Hairy’. ie
your legs (no Buddha’s) could do with the
depilatory arts of a ‘threader’ like her.