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Beauty=Nation
Ugly=Nation
Ladies Garden in Progress
The American Visitors
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The television in The Deer Hunter is in Clairton, Pennsylvania. Everything is still at
Welsh's Lounge: the clouds, the sky, the unlit neon sign outside the window. All is
calm, all is bright. I sing in English while my father is in Vietnam. American wives
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It was hardly war, the hardliest of wars. Hardly, hardly. It occurred to me that this
particular war was hardly war because of kids, more kids, those poor kids. The kids
were hungry until we GIs fed them. We dusted them with DDT. Hardly done. Reha-
bilitation of Korea, that is. It needs chemical fertilizer from the States, power to build
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1950 June 27: my father heard the sound of the engine of a North Korean fighter plane, Yak-9. Foremostly and therefore barely consequently in the highest manner, he followed the sound, running towards the city hall.
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Don Mee Choi Biography
Don Mee Choi is a Korean-American poet and translator. She was born in Seoul and now lives in Seattle. In addition to her own poetry, Choi is a prolific translator of modern Korean women poets, including several books by Kim Hyesoon.)
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Beauty=Nation
Ugly=Nation
Ladies Garden in Progress
The American Visitors
The New American Word
The Beauty of Publicity
Mother's Mop Head
Ring spots
Sway Me
Yes, Ma'am
Gossamer=Blouse
Yankee=Blouse
Yes, Ma'am
Sway Me
Father, nice to see you
Major, it's been a hell of a ride
General M & General H
Mother's Mop Head
I see ring spots
That's a good sight for my old eyes
Yes, Ma'am
Ray-Ban Sunglasses
So Sway Me
Sway Me
Oh Sway Me
1. Parade of the Japanese Colonial Government's Monitors
2. Parade of the First Republic's ROK Monitors
3. Parade of the DPRK Communist Monitors
4. Parade of the Joint ROK-UN Forces Monitors
Yes, Ma'am
Did I tell you I saw corpses piled up inside the well in Pyongyang?
Did I tell you I helped the Communist Monitor who was also a Colonial Monitor, ROK
Monitor, then later an ROK-UN Monitor drag the corpse
of his brother?
Monitor=For Life!
General=For Life!
President=For Life!
However, I see buttons and ring spots
Father, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Major, snap out of it. It's August 15, 1948
He's smiling at me
Fun Hydrangeas
Gossamer=Blouse and Yankee=Blouse
Warmly greeted one another
I see Ugly=Translators
Yes, Ma'am
Me=Gook
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