Jane Wong — The Monarch Review
Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me – Jane Wong
Thursday, March 27, 2014 14:21 — 2 Comments
What I discovered: there is no such thing as too much beauty, too much poetry, or too much limoncello! I ended my Wednesday night of APRIL’s festival (Authors, Publishers, and Readers of Independent Literature) eating chicken rice at Kedai Makan. But really, I wish I ate “pieces of toast dipped in toilet water†because that’s what one Mark Leidner poem deliciously suggests.Â
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What am I?
Bioluminescent eye
That sees by the shine
Of its own light. Lies
Blind me. I am the seventh human sense
And my stepchild,
Consequence;
Scientists can't find me.
Januswise I make us men;
Glamour
Was my image then—
Remind me:
The awful fall up off all fours
From the forest
To the hours…
Tick, Tock: Divine me.
-- Richard Kenney
