Saturday, December 17, 2011

beat poetry, part 1

China related. When I was in Beijing in 2003 I got a "job" editing a chinese-english dictionary - looking for typos and making sure that usage was correct. As a side project, I wrote down every sentence that I found interesting. These were example sentences. How to use the word "child" or "care for," for instance. I recently rediscovered the list. My apologies for the racism and unintentional raciness.

here goes:


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>
> In China, all children are well cared for
>
> The children have the best of care in new China
>
> The Red Army's glorious revolutionary traditions
> have carried over to the present day
>
> he declared that the Communist International was the
> hope of the world's oppressed.
>
> it was like the Black Hole of Calcutta on the
> underground this morning.
>
> i discovered that the French people have a heart
>
> believe it or not, china will never yield to outside
> pressure
>
> we believe in our government
>
> we firmly believe in collective leadership
>
> Thousands of Chinese miners, dead or alive, were
> thrown into the death pit by the Japanese Facists
>
> "in an interesting condition" =pregnant
>
> "make a classic boner"
>
> "on the game" = earning money as a prostitute
>
> "go the whole hog"
>
> Divide these figures by 10, if you want the truth
>
> cock is bold on his own dung hill
>
> reading is the key to the treasure house of ideas
>
> a fall into the pit, a gain in your wit
>
> dont' listen to him - he doesn't know a hawk from a
> handsaw
>
> Brian was always camping it up and pretending to be
> queer to make us laugh
>
> Is this haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?
>
> the two balls kissed
>
> the doctor slid his shorts down. his right cheek was
> freckled with punctures.
>
> his body is clever like a monkey
>
> sometimes amusement lay in speech and they climbed
> up their lives with jokes.
>
> what a big cock!
>
> trust him to cock it up!
>
> it was so cold that nobody can make his hands naked.
>
> they went into it for several hours, without much
> satisfaction on either side
>
> i will kill you a goat
>
> the habit of obedience was burned into me as a child
>
> he hands the old granny upstairs.
>
> just give him a piece of meat and he's in seventh
> heaven
>
> I don't know he was a gay person
>
> She is unusually soft and gentle in him.
>
> Mike thinks I'm trying to get off with his
> girlfriend
>
> At the college fancy-dress ball, one fo the students
> was got up as a tramp
>
> My daughter gives me much pleasure
>
> I gave it to him hot
>
> I wouldn't dream of insisting on taking your picture
> against your will
>
> I'm just waiting for a friend. It's an appointment
> made 20 years ago. It sounds a little funny, doens't
> it?
>
> He made manful efforts to...
>
> A rapist butchered his victim with razor.
>
> we call him iron ox
>
> His suitings are natty to a degree. (this means his
> clothes are extremely pretty)
>
> They discovered the delights of feeding chickens
> gradually
>
> How can we discern the difference between two books
> in a dark room
>
> "Is badminton anything like tennis?" "no, as
> different
> as chalk from cheese"
>
> I think it's not difficult for him to get a word in
> edgewise, because all the chatterboxes are not here
>
> He attempted to cover up his affair with that fat
> woman
>
> the farmer felt the cow, went away, returned, sorely
> perplexed, always afraid of being cheated
>
> even fools are afraid to lean against a rotten post
>
> neither beasts nor birds would have the bat as their
> friend so he was afraid to leave his house
>
> what a miracle! the rescue party dug out from
> underneath the debris an infant who was intact and
> still alive
>
> black people aren't allowed in to such places
>
> when death has once entered a house, it amost always
> returns there directly as if it knew the door
>
> the New forces always defeat the forces of decay
>
> Bed and sex are different things
>
> come on, put some beef into the job

> you have the beginnings of a double chin
>
> cheese belongs with salad
>
> children were playing in a pleasure beach
>
> can you bear your favorite child to be ruined?
>
> the young girl bore up well after her dad and granny
> were killed by the aggressors
>
> would you like to lie down on the bed for a few
> minutes?
>
> on several occaisions, returning late, he had found
> guests in his bed.
>
> she is brave for a woman
>
> i shall love you as long as i have breath
>
> she breathed a dead-and-alive "Good Afternoon"
>
> he felt lonely after he buried his good friend
>
> i couldn't understand, why a man who had always been
> so fond of the social scene should suddenly want to
> bury himself alive in a one-horse village at the
> back of nowhere
>
> wet clothes cling to the body
>
> he covered his wife with his body
>
> we are glad to have booked with you 1000 dozen Mens
> Shirts
>
> she remembers hunger, and depressing times when her
> parents sought escape in the bottle from hard
> realities
>
> They bound the boy's hands to you, Monroe.
>
> we attacked the enemy in the rear
>
> pay no attention to what that drunkard says
>
> the august weather is delicious
>
> wool body suits will retain their vogue next autumn
>
> "lazy bones! awake!" cried her mother
>
> the teacher told John to stay away from the members
> of the youth gangs
>
> there is a bird on the back of a piece of cloth
>
> gossip had it that she was a bad girl
>
> when does the ball come off?
>
> while listening to music, the young man baths
> himself slowly
>
> the literal meaning of the word "cat" is an animal,
> not a girl
>
> it is an animal of monkey kind
>
> "let's go the whole animal then" said sam.
>
> that night the table answered for a bed for us both.
>
> in answer to these questions i either nodded or made
> strange noises
>
> he's asleep, don't arouse him
>
> you may be only an assistant painter, but your
> pictures can knock mine into a cocked hat
>
> a hobby is compared to a special friend that you
> choose for yourself
>
> they considered themselves to be superior to
> coloured people
>
> he was fully bent upon the dissemination of Chinese
> culture all over the world
>
> he took his girlfriend home after the party and they
> stayed in the car billing and cooing for a long time
> before she went into her house.
>
> China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all.
> But this piece of meat is very tough, and for years
> no one has been able to bite into it.
>
> a camel is know as the ship of the desert
>
> > regular physical exercises soon made the boys hard
>
> have you the heart to say this of your own son,
> unnatural mother?
>
> bitches on heat can be very messy
> >
> She dreamed of turning a deaf-blind creature into a
> useful human.
>
> so you want a rise? dream on.
>
> when unemployed, I went to drive a tricycle
>
> Peace is fun. Peace is box office. Peace diverts
> critics, Peace is good.
>
> she was beginning to feel easy