Stuart B Campbell
Tatopani
This is a one-
generator village with
democracy in the open-
walled tea-house.
It gets dark:
‘Hands up who wants light!
Hands up who wants to see
a movie?’
There’s power
for one or the other.
Villagers, Tamang porters, Sherpas,
Expedition Members all vote
for ‘Beverly Hills Cop’; at three
thousand, nine hundred feet
altitude, at the bottom of
the world’s deepest gorge,
Five days walking from
(the next nearest
thing to) civilisation. ‘Great,
I’ve never seen this!’.
In the morning: A visit to
the bank (a one-generator,
one-bank village).
‘Change pounds, pounds sterling?’.
‘Ke?’.
Stuart B Campbell has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. He was short-listed for the Poetry Society/BT e-Poet Laureate Award, 2000. He published Robie Gow's Prison (1996) and edited the anthology Things Not Seen (1999). His new collection Navigation For Innocents is to be published by Dionysia Press this spring.
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