After Grace Yee



post-VPLAs we pile into ShanDong MaMa.

order dumplings by the dozen.

gossip. avoid ‘what we’re working on’.
i almost walk into a pole while texting.

J calls, ‘TAXIIIII…’

i yell at him for not protecting me from the pole.
in little bourke street we ramble

tipsy, idle, inept and mutinous.



‘the writing life’ was written for, and first performed at, the launch of Grace Yee’s Joss: A History.

It was inspired by her poem ‘for the chinese merchants of melbourne’.