venal soda configurations
by Peter J. Dellolio
Venal soda configurations
begged the children
for a blueprint
or some other indexical manifestation
of salty sea rocks
sitting in the back of the Drive-In
and critiquing Newton’s theories
while on the screen
Karloff says
You stay…We belong dead!
then the projector turned into a fish tank
and
someone assassinated the pears pulverized
into robust radioactive cream
a
luxurious help attic summoned me so I
was unable to enjoy it but
next time I will bring extra dessert menus
along with incense to block the stench of
decomposing gladiators
frozen musicians
rhumba instructors
banjo tormentors and other
assorted examples of
condemned prisoner behavior especially
regarding
last meal
How I Yearn to Leave This World
by John Grey
Of red dust once and for all
Like Laozi, riding on the bare hairy back
Of a water buffalo, as it plods along with as
Much leisure as self-expectancy, through
My Hangu Pass by myself to a distant
Locale in the west, where no humans
would know
If I’m about to demise or become a God
Heteronyms: A Geo-Linguacultural Poem
by Yuan Changming
Got no idea about how many han characters are shared among Chinese, Koreans and Japanese? Me either, but according to an online source, there are as many as 808, a really lucky number for people all over the greater China, though meaningless to both the island and the peninsular nations. Among them many have different meanings; for example:
han characters in Chinese in Korean in Japanese
放心 /fangxin/ rest assured confused un-concentrated
迷惑 /mihuo/ perplexed perplexed bothering
饭店 /fandian/ hotel Chinese restaurant Chinese restaurant
工夫 /gongfu/ effort study methods
打算 /dasuan/ plan calculating calculating
Now you know why they’ve been fighting so constantly both in language and reality