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Ouyang Yu
AN IDENTITY CV
AN IDENTITY CV
AN IDENTITY CV
By and large: By blood: By birth: By death: By language: By mistake: By nationality: By nature: By occupation: By race: By skin-colour: By the way: |
not much of a poem to speak of; han nationality for the last 46 years including this year but uncertain if going further back; there could be some other bloods mixed; a dna test would be needed to determine the purity or percentage of purity; a no hoper, destined to drift for life; someone australia will regret to have; capable of speaking only two at the moment; bilingual in the sense of bi- sexual or bi-partisan or bigamous or bipolar; getting caught by two, wanted by none, hated by most, and preferring to be left alone; australian for the last couple of years; chinese for the first 43; unashamed of either; having a bit of problem with both; a cross-cultural fucker; a stateless and statusless poet; downward mobile; upward wayward; edgewise, always edgewise; hard to define at the moment; some sort of as yet unformulated new theory would be needed; supposedly yellow but looking slightly white in winter or dark in summer if in receipt of too much sun; preferring to be changeable according to weather, and place; i haven’t had a decent job for the last 11 years; would you consider taking me on? |
© 2004, Ouyang Yu
From: New and Selected
Publisher: Salt Publishing,
From: New and Selected
Publisher: Salt Publishing,
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AN IDENTITY CV
By and large: By blood: By birth: By death: By language: By mistake: By nationality: By nature: By occupation: By race: By skin-colour: By the way: |
not much of a poem to speak of; han nationality for the last 46 years including this year but uncertain if going further back; there could be some other bloods mixed; a dna test would be needed to determine the purity or percentage of purity; a no hoper, destined to drift for life; someone australia will regret to have; capable of speaking only two at the moment; bilingual in the sense of bi- sexual or bi-partisan or bigamous or bipolar; getting caught by two, wanted by none, hated by most, and preferring to be left alone; australian for the last couple of years; chinese for the first 43; unashamed of either; having a bit of problem with both; a cross-cultural fucker; a stateless and statusless poet; downward mobile; upward wayward; edgewise, always edgewise; hard to define at the moment; some sort of as yet unformulated new theory would be needed; supposedly yellow but looking slightly white in winter or dark in summer if in receipt of too much sun; preferring to be changeable according to weather, and place; i haven’t had a decent job for the last 11 years; would you consider taking me on? |
From: New and Selected
AN IDENTITY CV
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