Saigon in 60 Seconds

Hot in Saigon, can't be assed,
Thought I'd churn out something fast,
If read very, very quick,
Without pause, breath or verbal tic,
Within a minute, all will fit,
Obviously don't include this bit,
A whole entire second for every line,
Easy done, you'll manage fine,
Our time in Saigon, baking sauna,
Here in no particular order:

(1) Bakery breakfasts; pastries, juice
(2) Lost my hat, got no excuse

(3) Lonely Planet walking tour
(4) 7am till half-past four

(5) Dated parks wandered through
(6) Mariammam temple, goddess Hindu

(7) Tiger-beer & Avengers Towers
(8) Roundabout Concrete Flowers

(9) Bitexco views, massive city
(10) Ho statue, Peoples' Committee

(11) Taoist Jade Emporer Pagoda
(12) Peddled street food, spiced aroma

(13) Air-con mostly not a thing
(14) Instead just fans, oscillating

(15) Tank-gate Palace, more fine art
(16) Quickie lunches, FamilyMart

(17) Another Ho Chi Minh museum
(18) Fried chicken, wedges, chips, Korean

(19) Aching feet, Intense heat
(20) Saigon Beer at six-hundred feet

(21) Found my hat
(22) Lucky fluke
(23) Pistachio ice-creams
(24) All except Luke

(25) Notre Damn, no not that one
(26) Champa statues, heads are gone

(27) Wartime remnants, solemn time
(28) Aftermath, atrocity and war-crime

(29) Buddhist resolve, must admire
(30) Memorial statue, monk-on-fire

(31) Looked for snake to eat, no luck
(32) Zoo enclosure, big yellow duck

(33) Tigers, giraffes, crocs, apes and more
(34) Hippo, bear, sheep, fake dinosaur

(35) Those Crazy roads
(36) Bikes just go
(37) Red man or Green
(38) Constant flow

(39) Underground mall, Indian curry
(40) Order failure, got back my money

(41) Demolished market, pile of bricks
(42) Worship chants, death-urns and sticks

(43) Walked sixty-k, aching thighs
(44) Incense smoke got in my eyes

(45) Sunny days, getting tanned
(46) Wet one too, brollies-in-hand
(47) Mr Brown's iced coffee brand

(48) As little left remains, time's sands
(49) Trickles through, falls then lands
(50) Packing bags
(51) Won't all fit
(52) Crap; I bought a lot of it
(53) Last night here, final treat
(54) Brewery down on Pasteur street
(55) For crafty beers
(56) And massive cheers
(57) To times to remember
(58) For years and years

(59) Trip Vietnam, end of line
(60) Now, it's going-home time

Anon, 2018Read more