Monday, April 18, 2016Issue 07.02LDOC free art

Poetry by Yuan Changming

I’ll be your mirrorPhotographs by Carly Ries

Chinglish vs Americhina

Under our great gunvernmentWhich now hates z-turning mostOur society is a true socialist democrazyFull of shitizens (and stupigs)

While many a department and its headAre trying to pursue propoorptyAs well as a fine sexretaryMost other chinsumers love to

Demonstrate their amimale In front of circumseersLike those who enjoy living togaytherIn smilence

A Whitewashed Wish

Rather than a popular singerTo win applause and moneyAs his or her song is absorbed by walls And clothes among frenzy audiences

You would be a Munch screamer Standing high on a hill topShouting above the veryTop of your voice

Simply for a tiny echo From the depth of the valley

Tree Scars

With your fingers, handsAnd even arms cut off

You have scars all overYour body, which first

You used to protest against all human pain And injury in deafening silence, then

Your mouths became eyes staring stillAt each evil knife, each inhuman act

Now you are looking forward, and beyondWithout a wink, without a tear drop

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Yuan Changming, 9-time Pushcart nominee and author of seven chapbooks, published monographs on translation before moving out of China. Currently, Yuan edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver, and has poetry appearing in Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Threepenny

Review and 1149 others across 38 countries. http://yuanspoetry.blogspot.ca

Carly Ries is an artist living and working Chicago, IL. Her series I’ll be your mirror is an ongoing project in the city of Chicago and areas surrounding Lake Michigan exploring connection between strangers. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. Her photography has been exhibited across the United States. www.carlyries.com

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