john tiong chunghoo Poems

twin pity

the way sylvia Chang looks at
the less than pretty journalist
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can life be so simple?
as is written in all the books?
where have all your probing
Socrateses gone to?
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an euption in my heart
the splendid kimono
the six figure price
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i love you
the amateur poet
wrote on the site
without revealing himself
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the same chime
of the old church bell
El Paso's Mission Ysleta
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degree of difference
we walk on greenery
up the snow capped mountain
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New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
we try to improvise on
our cuisine too
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sake
sweetness of last year's rice
flows through my lips
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death bed
granny asks for
cocacola
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new pope
further down the line from christ
an uphill battle to get us to him
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