Captain Fantastic
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 March 2020
Summary
I have seen the fishing trawlers
wafting factories , micro-holocausts on the swell
seen the enormous Cargo boxes in square ships
Captain Fantastic
With his Filippino crew
I am a Daoist he said conspiratorially
Ah!
You are a Chinaman
No, American from Chinatown
My son is a surgeon
At the Imperial College in London
We do come from a long-line of butchers
I am he whispered conspiratorially A Civilisational Conundrum!
And when slightly drunk:
I am Dr. Zen
Born in India, perfected in Wu-han
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- Around the World in Eighty DaysThe India Section, pp. 14 - 15Publisher: University of South AfricaPrint publication year: 2014