Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Politics/Poetics of Re-Homing, XIII

Mr. Lou
your foreign credentials ...
pinned by his white gaze
I'm just another immigrant
with black slanted eyes

Atlas Poetica, 15, July 2013

Note: you can read its preceding tanka or the whole sequence here
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  1. Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐December 11, 2013 at 9:02 AM

    The concluding phrase is related to the century-old racist attitide that people with 'slanted/slant eyes', yellow skin and a silly sing-song way of jabbering must be inferior to upstanding.

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