Jackie Chou

Seductress

I'm a seductress
I suck you like a vacuum
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I miss the sinuous curves
of our words-
the way our blue ink
pitter-pattered
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My beauty is eyes that require thick spectacles
My beauty is full cheeks like a gibbous moon
My beauty is the B that never made it to A
My beauty is a name on the list of those
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silenced

nice is not necessarily a good thing
it is an insult
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I say 'yes'
because it feels smooth on my tongue
when I utter it
I like the way its vowel sound
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I commend you
for writing poetry
for writing good poetry
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Look between stacked stones
Inside the holes of tree shadows
The stones may become a stairway
The holes openings
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Remove the grin on your face,
you creature of the night!

Your smile is ghastly,
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Give Heart

Is it a crime, to lack the ability to rhyme?
Should we shun, those whose words fail to stun?
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Orange is the color
of rust on bars
and metal bed frames
in prison cells
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It can be a pretty word-

The color of saccharine fruits,
sweet and sour coating on breaded meat.
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Asiatic version of Leo DiCaprio
at fourteen

He wafted a scent of drugstore hairspray
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The scissors in her hand

fell to the ground with a clunk
like my father's words
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Baby, you're no cubic zirconia
You're a diamond in the sack
My hands are sore trying to find ya
You're the reddest apple on the tree
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So you wanna be a go-getter
After all you're in America
In truth you're a gold-digger
Accruing bad karma
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Give me a chance.
Be it a ray of light
squeezing through the blinds
on days you cannot see the sun.
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Your glance is brief.
I try to catch it in my hand,
hold it in my heart-
that ray of light radiating
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Your kiss is Ben and Jerry, Haagen Dazs
The union of our tongues
Awakens my sweet tooth
I want to freeze this moment before it melts
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My anger is the black side of the yin and yang
One day I'm a gentle breeze
Tickling the surface of your placid heart
Making little ripples of impact
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The free girl explores the world
The sheltered girl
Looks at it from her window
Fills what she cannot see
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