Kevin Jerome Rozario
Poem in English, after Catherine Lim's short story 'Kenneth Jerome Rozario' (1980)
I’m not so good with English spelling.
I leave out word-endings, end-rhymes, streams of affixes:
My big, buff hyperintelligent orange bird just faps and faps and faps its things
and language breaks free of its strictures.
I turn on the radio
and it hums and comes to me,
straddling my legs
and breaking me into a wet, muddling sweat.
The question of why we still…
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