CHINATOWN

                                      After Polanski

When they ask what happened

to the boy you knew

tell them

this is Chinatown

And when they condemn the intrigue

and suspicion

the knife in my neighbour’s back

tell them

this is Chinatown

And tell them to watch out.

                          Pavlos Andronikos

Published in Antipodes 22 (Dec. 1987), 13,
alongside this illustration by Nikos Kypraios.