ARAR
SITUATIONS 002 de Farsight
for poetry should not be therapy
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chen chen
Yaeji
sings
This product is called Depression
& I think about how I haven’t been out dancing
in a year, & how I say
Because I’m a homebody
when my body misses the way bodies become song
& light.
-
Chen Chen
I can’t decide
whether the university
is a refuge for the bookish lonely
or a T-shirt store
run by a soda company.
-
Chen Chen
O onerous sibilants, O onomatopoetic glibness
-
Marilyn Chin
All beautiful boyfriends are transitory
-
Marilyn Chin
I cry for you but no sound wells up in my throat
-
Marilyn Chin
Ornamental Oriental techno impresarios
I am your parlor rug your chamber bauble
Love me stone me I am all yours
Pound Pound my father’s Ezra
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Marilyn Chin
Metaphor metaphor my pestilential aesthetic
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Marilyn Chin
Why cry over dried flowers?
They’re meant to be straw.
-
Marilyn Chin
As Robert Frost said, the best way out is always through.
Or as Alanis Morissette said, the only way out is through.
-
Chen Chen
Your emergency contact has called
to quit. Your back-up plan has backed
away.
-
Chen Chen
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