Chrysanthemum Literary Society: Chrysanthemum Writing Group

Sunday, May 8, 2011

New MeetUp for writers of all genres and all levels of experience

Chrysanthemum Writing Group

Organization Meeting on Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 5pm

at Common Ground Coffee and Cupcake shop in Renton, WA.

Address: 900 South 3rd Street

Telephone: (425) 235 - 1717

Please Sir, Tell Me Who I Am

Please sir, before you release a bullet against me,

tell me who I am, or if I am who I think I am.

I wear a waiter’s yellow jacket, I bring teapot and tea

and I flick the beads of an abacus in the back of a herbal store.

Yet I sigh at fallen cherry blossoms, pink and white like little girls’ skirts

on the dirt in Kyoto Park, just a few nights ago when the blossoms lit the hills.

Now I am washing dishes in China Gate Café and groan like a lion in a dying fall,

to slink later to a mahjong club and get a big erection when I bang north and south.

I write to my wife in Hong Kong and am I lost into it!

Like one tree going into a forest to hear false poets in my deaf ear.

I hear “sound and fury” but I remain skeptical of their meaning

and the local fortune-teller says the lines on my face read like a poem

And the lines on my open palms and all the veins and arteries

on my naked body are like a road map of China.

Koon Woon

March 28, 2008