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the little differences

I know things are really different in China,
but Shanghai and Beijing are urban areas,
so a lot of things seems really similar.

I mean, you saw signs on the walls and
in the streets in Chinese, but you understood
how to get around and what to do.

I swear, what I remember most are the
little differences,

like McDonalds, I got an
egg McMuffin because I’ve seen signs
in French for “Oeuf McMuffins.”

So when I ordered one in Beijing, I got a
hamburger bun for a muffin (egg McHamburger?),
and it was covered in ketchup and mayo,

I swear to God it was fucking drowning in the shit;
I wiped some of it off with my index finger
and chalked it up to knowing the little differences.

Like in Shanghai we went to Starbucks (because
even in China, there’s still one on every corner,

& John said I liked white chocolate frappuccinos ,
so Jim asked if they had white chocolate.
The woman behind the counter said,

“No, we only have black chocolate.”

(You’d never hear that in the United States...)

Knowing that a good part of China lives in squalor,
we saw that everyone hung their clothing to dry.
Jim said China’d have to build a ton of new plants
just to supply power to these dryers that people
can’t afford, so clothing dryers don’t exist.

China has no Medicare or government health care plans
(don’t say the United States is free of government intervention...)
so people save their money for accidents. It’s a good thing,

because we saw rickety bamboo stalks used
for ladders&scaffolding for Chinamen
for repairing&cleaning high rises.

But you have to remember these differences,
I mean, a stop sign is still a red octagon
even if you don’t know the language it’s in,

even Coke cans print both languages on them,

But you know, the funny thing about China
are the little differences.

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