Cha-No-Yu
(The Tea Ceromony)

Drinking Ulong tea
Served in a plastic cup
By a vending machine.

Sat in a plastic chair
Watching a Japanese girl
Trying to sell ice cream

In a cornucopia
Of a super market
Selling every kind of kitsch.

This tourists mecca
And money making Midas
This new millennium dream.

Customs have changed
Everything is sealed
Hermetically in plastic.

The Master of Ceremonies
Has been replaced by a
Vending machine.

And the Geisha girl
Is trying to sell ice cream
In a consumers paradise

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