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Arlene Ang
Location: Venice, Italy
Email: arlene@tin.it
Website: http://members.tripod.com/~aang/index.html
Publications: Dandelion, Zuzu's Petals Quarterly Online, LiNQ, Rattle, etc.
Other: Editor of Mefisto: An On-Line Literary Arts Journal
SCRUPLES : MANILA 1996
Strawberries steeped
in formaldehyde
are the ones they'd eaten last.
Tomorrow will find them
locked in a box.
Old vendor fans himself
with well-earned peso bills
as he walks home from market
counting his blessings.
Tomorrow he'll have a go
at painting the fish
a healthy rouge of cyanide.