If I Remember
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Elaine Kim | Poetry
I.
The Korean pornographic
society hacked
edges around the blue-screen
firewall
that frayed in empty pixels because
one patch of a sky is never enough
for infants with thrusting
legs who tear off
their bonnie hats and
sunglasses to
measure the vast fluidity
with small palms; ambition
these days can melt an oppressed city.
this and lust can make a politician spread
her legs.
II.
for NHD
When they called me in for
the interview the blue-tie man
asked Too Young?
instead of my name
and my new identity became an anomaly
when they gurgled
The concept of childhood is
fairly new in
favor of my paper. And I agree to this.
Think,
when have you first and last
considered yourself a girl?
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