• Aimee Nezhukumatathil

• ONE STAR REVIEWS OF THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA

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• This is not an experience of a lifetime.
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• It was awful. I couldn’t enjoy
• the scenery because I was too busy
• trying not to trample
• or be trampled. Besides that,
• it was great. Ha ha, just kidding:
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    •                                                     I hated it.
• The crowds are crazy!
• The pollution is crazy!
• No one can speak English!
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• Back in my day the walls were more beautiful and they didn’t have to be so tall. I
• didn’t feel good with my leg that day, and my wife really wanted to visit all the
• Chinese Wall and I said, “Ok, let's do it!” but I soon understood that it was
• definitely too long for me and I got tired. I failed in front of my wife because of
• this wall, so I'm not going back.
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• It was raining.
• It was foggy.
• It was raining.
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• Too much fog.
• Too much rain.
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  •            It’s just a wall.
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AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL is the author of four books of poetry, including Oceanic, forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2018, and of a collection of nature essays forthcoming from Milkweed. She is poetry editor of the magazine Orion and a professor of English in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.