<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Life, the Obstacle Course]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[taurusingemini]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com/author/taurusingemini/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Scuba Diving, a&nbsp;Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">On the politics, the ideals of separate by equal, translated…</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>I’d Held My Breaths, Entered into Your Realm</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Translated an Island</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Waves, the Movements All Around it<img src="https://www.natureflip.com/sites/default/files/blog/scuba-diving-and-snorkelling-around-perhentian-island/scuba-diving-and-snorkelling-around-perhentian-island.jpg" /></em>this small group of people, with shared interests, make up a &#8220;population&#8221;&#8230;photo from online&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>You are on the Highest Peak of the Island, Collecting the Cracks of the Waves</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Weaving the Words, All Around You</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>With Enormous Number of Words, with the Writings, Covering up the Beaches</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>I’d Prepared a Huge Leaf</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Imagined the Way it’d Looked, Covering Up Your Body</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Swaying Every Night, Calling in the Moon Passing by</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Without Any Ships, Willing to Stay Here</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>All the Sea Breezes</em></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Carried Their Separate Tones of Voices</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Some Words, Sentences, Rose up, Some Had</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Returned, Back to that Salted Current</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Pretending that They’re the Everydayness</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>to Not Fall Deeper in</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>for the Sake of Scuba Diving in Even More Silence</em></p>
<p><img src="https://changingaging-ilgl7vtlixy4g.stackpathdns.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Riot.jpg" /><b></b>standing up, portesting for our rights&#8230;not my silhouette</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Being Comfortable, Afloat, in the Cold Waters</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>I’m the Tested Limitations of the Currents</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>with No Other Explanations</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>In this Constant Wave Passing Through</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>The World is at Peace, and, We’d, Gotten Alone Fine too</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">This is, I think, describing the international relations of China and Taiwan, and, so long as we are on our side, doing our own stuff, not breaching any boundaries, not claiming to be independent, then, China and Taiwan will get along fine…</p>
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