A Failed Bigamy

By | 11 May 2026

am dangerous splintering
sawing myself
sorry i meant seeing

they live in a promiscuous garden
forking between languages
but we who are
unable to knock open
the door of English
nor return to the family
tomb of Hanzi
have to chew down a tree
with our front teeth

Thank God
sorry i meant thank me
我 used to be
an ancient weapon 戈
serrated like saw-teeth
forking corpses

i am as much a sinologist
(i startle my shrink)
as a schizophrenic

now that i have killed
all my doppelgängers
and become
a widow of language

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