From How People Respond to Them, Yet Know Them Not
published by Down With Grundy, Publisher
(now Banana-Cue Books, Publisher)

Wan Sunday
(or, Running Into A Beach-Loving Poet In A Popular Chinese-Filipino Supermarket Within A Mall)

---for Krip Yuson

 

People-watching virtue is on these shelves of goods waiting for
                        appreciation onshore.
And our baywatch on floating carts, a pink salmon can’s sermon
                        by a grocer’s non-tan.

Far from being invasive, I implore the gods of Singapore to tell me
                        the truth overseas
About this lean army of biscuits in a box, or enemy Arab calories
                        in a bottle of dates!
The expensive tropical soy sauce, gross inconsistency there against
                        the sugared islets
On our lists this payday weekend holiday, fore to cashiers’
                        waylaying us at turnstiles.
Kiss our wallets goodbye. Say hi to the resort of a wan grocer
                        named Tan. Those feng

Shui winds seem to work for him. I work for orphic weekends:
                        sons, sand dunes, sun.

 

 

---07/20/01

 

 

 

 

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