Sarah Jessica Parker Does Lao, a haiku inspired by Amy Howell

Outside the rain falls

The rainy season they say

A monsoon I think

Watching Lao TV

All soaps and gossipy shows

And I don't speak Lao

But here's HBO

Showing the world's best re-runs

Sex and the City

Oh look it's the one

Where Carrie loses her shoes

At her friend's party

Four hundred dollars

For shoes her friend won't re-pay

And the Lao rain falls