From the Burma Road to Kunming, China to Shanghai, a 20-year old US Army Sergeant experiences the perils and pleasures that can come only from the Orient---especially during a World War---from November 1944 to November 1945. Two of the 54 poems have been published. "The Five and Dime," was featured in a newspaper's Sunday Supplement, and "Cadillac Kate" was selected for a well known collection of poems a few years back. Experience the War through a young soldier's eyes. From the people he met and the women he loved, to the hospitals, nurses and more. I was lying in bed in a Kunming tent My nurse was a Burmese beauty; She said, "You really velly sick." I said, "and you really are some cutie " There's a guy in the next bed, Says, "It's called lack-a-nookie." The nurse giggled a bit, and then asked, "You guys wan some milk, and maybe a cookie?" "The doctor," she said, "he 'dink mararia. I tell him, I 'don dink so. I see whole bunch in India, But here in China, I dink No" You will cry a little, laugh a lot and wonder why you never heard of the Yunan Province where opium was legal, the Chinese generals hated each other, and Shanghai was the only port in the world that took in Jewish refugees from Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Poland, etc. And what the city was like a few weeks after WW2 ended.