This poem was written by Lazer in May 1993 while on a three week cultural exchange program to China. The poem consists of three sections and each section contains nine stanzas of nine sentences each. Lazer writes that his "interest in sentence-based poetic compositions derives from reading of the work of Ron Silliman, Lyn Hejinian, and Gertrude Stein." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.