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Kenji C. Liu reads “Drowsiness through my kiss”
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Kenji C. Liu reads his poem “Drowsiness through my kiss”.
Kenji:
http://www.kenjiliu.com/
https://twitter.com/kenjicliu
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My name is Kenji Liu and the poem I'll be reading is "Drowsiness Through My Kiss". It is a frankenpo which is an invented form that combines text from other texts to create a poem and in this case, this is a frankenpo of an article on genderless (?~0:19), which is a form of masculinity in Japan. The Buddhist (?~0:24) and the screenplay of the animated movie "The Last Unicorn".
Dear Beloved,
Ill will wants to hew
you into smoke
A country is
a husk deception
a demon bottle
a mad gizzard
(black and blue from gender)
coming to crash
your wild inside canvas
Up the forest lunges
moans a shaking beard
spits a body
of spreading trousers
See forever
that serpent you annoyed
You bull moon
You skull prince rolling
for miles
your back
a barbed anatomy
You
high-heeled express
in a pure-heart jacket
in satin boy kneecaps
and a skinny pink
unicorn suit.
You powder all the pieces
unlace the prettiest voice-over
lipstick could ever kill
Lion ears, you know
the balcony crumbles behind
you
And still the moon
protrudes
above
a purring
one-eyed wonder
See
clumsy love still runs
something
Dear Beloved,
Ill will wants to hew
you into smoke
A country is
a husk deception
a demon bottle
a mad gizzard
(black and blue from gender)
coming to crash
your wild inside canvas
Up the forest lunges
moans a shaking beard
spits a body
of spreading trousers
See forever
that serpent you annoyed
You bull moon
You skull prince rolling
for miles
your back
a barbed anatomy
You
high-heeled express
in a pure-heart jacket
in satin boy kneecaps
and a skinny pink
unicorn suit.
You powder all the pieces
unlace the prettiest voice-over
lipstick could ever kill
Lion ears, you know
the balcony crumbles behind
you
And still the moon
protrudes
above
a purring
one-eyed wonder
See
clumsy love still runs
something