Another Face

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Savior

He took an excerpt from the ART OF FAILURE, wrote it into

his ART OF SUCCESS, hid it again in the ART OF THE

ANTHROPOCENE, then closed it with a satisfied heart,

feeling like a savior.

Dentist (after Sarah Howe)

Maybe pulling the plug

is just a mutual blessing.


You are shy moonbeam

with a slight blush. I am


the rock in the lava that

tries to coagulate in vain.


The next time we meet

is our first time, please


sans words pull out my

cavities. My eyes will be


willfully out of focus and

I won’t cry again. I promise.

I turned into a gay man who cannot return.

Into a man who cannot, I return.

Turned, who cannot return, I am.

Gay, I turned into who cannot return.

Man, I turned, cannot return into who.

Cannot turn into who I am.

Who, a gay man, I turned.

Into who cannot return, I turned.

Return to who I am, a gay man.

Man who cannot, I turned into.

Who I am, a gay man cannot turn.

Into I turned, cannot return.

Gay man, I cannot return to who.

Cannot return, I turned into a gay man.

I, who turned, cannot return.


Columbus

The last item made in China you

purchased might have been a rainbow

Rotate your square French fag 90 degrees,

it will become the Dutch one, both straight

perfectly. The only thing more crooked is

remember much about its history. The last

time I saw it might have been in the game

Age of Discovery. At 12, for the frst time,

I saw the whole world, in the early morning,

in his room. My small boat lit up different

areas of the map along its winding edges.

Under the cover of night, Columbus climbed

to the peak of the world.


Neutered Cat

When white queers speak of racial equality, it’s hailed as progress; when I do, it’s a jest. Every color of skin glows, in the uniformity of a queer family portrait, captured in a CLICK.

Into the household, the neutered cat strides, endearing and compliant, yet seizing love besides.*

*Cf. In ‘After Eunuchs,’ Howard Chiang suggests that eunuchs sometimes orches�trated the entire court from behind the scenes, with the emperor or empress merely a puppet.