Shin Yu Pai
William Hung Forever!
Don't let people tell you
can't sing, look at Bob Dylan,
Lou Reed, Jim Morrison
none of them great musicians,
i’d love to sit down
and talk to you about
computers – it was
love at first site
i cried when you didn’t
make it to the finals
i was obsessed
i hope i am not scaring you!
hola amigo quiero ser
your only latin lover
i no the song by heart
when i saw you
on American Idle
i laughed until i cried
you will be a very good singer one day
dancing... i don't know about
an experience; a way of life bottled
into one small Asian male
They call him
HONG KONG RICKY MARTIN
THE HUNG
HUNG HIMSELF
hals und beinbruch
in the motherland not
just women and
dwarves who undergo the knife
an up and coming aspirant
in Beijing reports from
the operating table
I need to be at least five
foot nine to achieve what
I want in life
chisel and mallet
taken to the knee
clean snap of bone
heredity, bone stunt or
nanism, overturn a sentence
to new opportunities
in the government
a chance at law school or
to act in film
ugly duckling to
silly goose, the world
a stage break
a leg
Emergency Poem
public health-
care inspires
the greatest of
career aspirations
chokes and dry
heaves in
a fragrance free
environment
of needle sticks
hairnets, bladder
explosions, in war
time, Florence
nightingale she
was not in the
Keatsian sense
a lamp,
codeblue
page a surgeon
to remove
that growth,
stat!
signing off
with these
instructions:
please
do not
resuscitate
HOZHO*
no
words
but in
actions
reduce
compress
present
tense operations
perform
bird’s eye
view
of compost
composition
not figure
against ground
likeness & unlikeness
pigment ground
electrical currents
a basis for
belief in
the collapse of
meaning
into the intimate & the vast
(* the Navajo word for “beauty”, balance, harmony - & the effort towards)