New Tales of the Gobi Desert
The Chinese Foundation Secondary School, Jason Lo, Fiction: Group 4
Long Live all the ages and
Once a gratuitous grateful greenwood
Where the dunes were still the food.
Where’re the lovely human beings?
Who’ll turn me into blackish soot?
Long Live all the ages and
Dinosaurs, leopards, wolves and black-tailed gazelles
Stepping on the evolutionary scales.
Running through the Chinese plateau to gain some alleles
Well, there were the first male and female.
A night is bright and a day is dark in evolutionary patterns
With falling water droplets down the lichens.
Small showing sick in a sudden then
Big becoming buoyant in a loud strong “bang”.
The river narrowed and the water split out
Forming sands when water met with grass in the garden
And one day the sands were blown up high
For three statue eyes were formed in the greyish sky.
Rocky tears started to run off the eyelid
The ground collected the cries and burned the tears when it was mid.
Ashes were circulating with a swirling
Two camels went near the tears and their humps were disappearing.
Long Live the decades and
Two humps were found under a 100-inch layer of sand.
Who buried that? Who buried that?
Where had the Master of the Land gone?
The two humps assembled together becoming a cat,
The black cat with fluorescent green eyes at night.
Long live the decades
Were they traders and businessmen?
The cat became unstoppable and kept his work.
The cat’s face turned red, I saw
Step onto the sand and the cat will vomit some sand out
This is why desertification occurs so frequently
Graveyard of air, graveyard of water, graveyard of land
Gramercy! Gramercy!
