Dirty Bar Street
A roundel to remember the notorious nightlife hotspot of Sanlitun.
Dirty Bar Street
Sanlitun, Beijing, mid-1990s–2017
For those who are confused, “dirty” describes the spirit:
Depravity downed with cheap liquor, virtue unused.
Alley stained with slobber, cheats, sin, chunder — that’s vomit
For those who are confused.
Good times made worse, that’s what we signed up for. But we knew
Living gets shorter, youth never younger, and to quit
Meant missing history, our chance to say au revoir, adieu.
Anyway, we found friends; bit of eye candy, some wit.
Past the reaping hours, when sun-smeared haze blighted our view,
We marveled we were here, this Beijing. We took a pic
For those who are confused.
This is far too short. There's so much more to say.