Cathy Park Hong Poems

We once worked as clerks

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into the clouds, all memories
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Chang spoke / Eng paused.

Chang threw a beach ball / Eng caught it.
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Recall the frontier when the business
of memory booms, when broadbands uncoil
and clouds swell with sticky portals, amassing
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I'mma a two-ton spiker hips fast rondeau
N'ere more, nay sayer feel this orbit rattle
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There, garland dandelions round that idol
with a corn husk face &  beard
patched with rat stubble from a barber's dust pan,
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Overheard in the heat, the air, the fruit fly's drone
of the perfect helix, overheard in science's repartee
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Raised on a cozy diet of conditional love,
I learned to emoji from teevee.
Now I'm hounded by gripes before my time.
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In this world hacked from marrowed dust,
the half-breed assassin slays
men before they breed to corps,
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Stamp the earth rind down,
shuck our boots &  nap on
rubber cockscomb pad.
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