A Makeover Poem by Chen-ou Liu
A Makeover
a 3-tanka sequence
'oh, you speak well
where are you really from? '
behind the fence
my neighbor, a native speaker
of the weasel language
this dream loop,
a moment in Taipei
then next in Ajax...
mental quicksand where
the past drowns the present
another round
of armed conflict in the news
as a new year starts
I ponder the endings
in my immigrant life
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