A long time since an update! But these poems I read today over at [PANK] deserve posting, praise, publicity. Sexuality and race–seen comic, tragic, beautiful. Chen Chen winds the profound and the absurd together in these poems, that are all worth reading, but a special shout-out to #3.
From,”You should let yourself be more Asian, it’s cute”–
said my white boyfriend & I felt him
douse me in fresh soy milk & Hello Kitty bows
over the phone. Thing is, I love soy milk,
Hello Kitty. But I also love chocolate chip cookies,
No further summary needed, I think, just:
>>> Read it here.
swallowable 