Fio At Semio Land's End Poem by Desmond Kon

It's a long way from Baudrillard's hyperreal-hybrid universe.
And Fio is bracing, gathering himself for the good fight
against the Hunters, four sizes bigger and humanoid-looking,
beady eyes and overbite from supernumerary teeth.
Fio, the numero uno superchimera antihero hangs on,
by the iridescent skin of his teeth. It's the amber lustre
of Fio's furry plumage that the Hunters want.
It's pelage, it's petalage. It's at once rose gold and silverware.
Along with Jio's sand-and-sea sheen as well as a whole Vio,
freshwater happiness swimming in a Bufflehead rubber ducky
that quacks small quacks, quiet beak like a bigfin squid's.
Deleuze and Guattari are reading to Fio their theory
about the body-without-organs, signposting the deep
structure, the double coding. In a last floral burst of nomadism.
'Keep the six surfaces, ' they seem to say at Lake Poyang.
A Subaltern Saussure lives there, a wintering Siberian Crane.
'Keep them tough like the keel and stern of a ship.'



Author's Note:

This prose poem was penned for Nana Pong's exhibit at Geisai Taiwan, which represented the work of 200 artists. The biannual Geisai art show is the brainchild of contemporary Japanese art guru Takashi Murakami. The exhibit featured several characters from Roomism's Big Foot series, including Fio, Dom and Moyo.