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After Polanski
When they ask what happened to the boy you knew tell them this is Chinatown
And when they condemn the intrigue and suspicion the knife in my neighbour’s back tell them this is Chinatown
And tell them to watch out.
Pavlos Andronikos
Published in Antipodes 22 (Dec. 1987), 13, alongside this illustration by Nikos Kypraios.