In class we were told to look at specific poems and to blog about them if we didn't get around to them during class so here they are...
St. Petersburg Hotel Series - 4. The Washrooms of St. Petersburg
This poem was quite humorous and brought out the non-serious side of the Desert and the tour guide. These washrooms that they described were similar to ones that I have experienced in Japan which in odd given that they are in a hotel modeled, or named, after a Russian city.
The Lineage of Yes-Men
This poem was the internal conflict between the tour guide's heritage and her ancestry. For all her life, her lineage was all "yes-men," people who constantly and consistently said yes to those in power and complied to save their own life (her father was a spy). She, an independent woman must try to break free of her heritage in order to live the life she wants to live.
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