Cultural Appropriation
Oh oh, CaLokie, you suggested
making the November theme for
Four Feathers Press online edition
Dia De Los Muertos, isn't that...?
Not as bad as performing songs
from another culture like Paul
Simon did on Graceland, and,
now that I think about it, Me And
Julio Down By The Schoolyard.
Don't even mention Genesis!
Yikes, am I not allowed to order
my beloved bean and cheese
burrito anymore? And I just
bought dumplings at the 168
Market on Valley Boulevard
and nobody stopped me
except to say Shi Sheh.
You know why I got them,
my wife is from Dalian, then
adulted in Sanya. Is getting
married the ultimate C.A.?
Wait a minute, I'm writing
this poem in English. Talk
about colloquial acquisition....
Triumph and Tragedy
Wheeled out the portable
Air conditioner that looks
Like an all-white R2-D2
Sat it next to me in my red
UCLA-lifted swivel chair to
Provide a 78-degree breeze
I pointed the white plastic
Caterpillar-like exhaust tube
To the parted front door space
Below the bottom of the black
Iron security screen somehow an
Orange butterfly stilled by blast
Horror (a found poem*)
1 (Jupiter eats Earth)
imagine a grape
next to a basketball
like a drop of food
coloring into ocean
glowing white hot
liquid metallic hydrogen
2 (Visit HD189733b)
blue earth-like planet
with soft oceanic swirls
a Van Gogh marble
constant winds whip
rainstorms of molten
glass shards sideways
fiery cosmic tornado
chunks shred you apart
with near infinite cuts
3 (the great nothing)
everything will dissolve
voids are growing and will
consume all things forever
*Inspired by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVs7MwizT5
