Monday, January 30, 2012

Surreptitious Student of Life

Surreptitious Student of Life

          "A true poet does not bother to be poetical,
            Nor does a nursery gardener perfume his roses."
                                                      Jean Cocteau

You are a surreptitious 
C student of life
first thing hummer of Nietzsche
emotional alien
suicidal bug
Yellow Peril: neo-American
way over your head
in love and fiction
self-overrated
Mama's boy
sentimentalist
inveterately romantic
stranger in strange land
forever
lonely
yet always
trust the thrust of your heart's desires
and hanker
after
Peace

Adapted from Chang-Rae Lee, a Korean-American

Roberto Wissai/NKBa'
January 30, 2012

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