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Beautiful Asian girls

Walk by

With porcelain skin

And dark eyes

That match their hair.

The light color of their incredible skin

Is such a sharp contrast

To the darkness

Of their penetrating eyes.

Warm smiles

And demure expressions

Make them lethal

Weapons

Of beauty.

Unlike Japanese women,

Who smile and then bow

Their heads in ritualistic

Submissiveness,

The women here

In Taiwan

Hold eye contact

And probe

Deeper,

With a curiosity

That is both

Naive and hungry.

Were it not for the fact that I already have a Taiwanese girlfriend,

I would be destroyed

By each look

And each smile

I receive.

Timothy Vance Jackson

March 21, 2009