For Rita Moreno
on Her Birthday:

Sex and Art in
a Chinese Poem

In the box-style I Ching
Hexagram 34,
The Power of the Great,
is represented by

  .

Art is represented
by a box
(Hexagram 20,
Contemplation, View)

  .

  And of course 
great art
is represented by
an X in a box.
(Hexagram 2,
The Receptive)

  .

The combination of these
three symbols may be viewed
as "Power in a  Box," or,
according to some scholars,
"The Art of Great Sex."
 


From Xinhua News Agency tonight:

Xbox 360 meets
cold shoulder in Japan.

But in another time and place...