a typhoon in town

there is this one boy hongkong failed to charm -

i went to lamma island in typhoon
signal one, sitting in the rain
on the ferry, drifting away from
the tall thing across the sea, almost pretty. (the dutch tourists talked about crashing its bar on the 80th floor.)
i yawned (after a week of jetlag) and thought
to myself that it would be nice
(how nice it would be indeed!)
if my boyfriend fell as much in love
with hongkong as he did with me.