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by Yen-Yen Lu
To My Daughter About Love
I can't tell you anything about that,but one day your journey'll stop outside a door,and you won't have time to take even...
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by Yen-Yen Lu
The Protagonist
You'll remember him well as the manipulative tabby withdisembodied voice, a bona fide weirdo unfurling flashbacks andover-reactions...
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by Yen-Yen Lu
Communication
I know that I know what I knowI don’t know if you know what I know.If you don’t, then should I let you know what I know?What if you w...
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by Yen-Yen Lu
Fish Library
Below the gleam of this paper and the seaceiling where light gains a purchaselike an anglepoise beam off green baize,there’s a spiral...
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by Yen-Yen Lu
Shhhhh
The ace is still up my sleeve.The cat is still in the bag.The rabbit is not yet away.This pole still flies no flag.There’s a bombshell burst...
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by Yen-Yen Lu
Monopoly
Almost bankrupt and only recently released from jail,she owes her ten year oldfour hundred quid in rentfor landing on his new hotel in Bo...
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by Yen-Yen Lu
The OK Diner
It’s fine, but it’s not Little Chef,the finer where we stop for lunch,not Grantham, or Stamford, but the Newark branch(not in New Jers...
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by Yen-Yen Lu
The Bus Stop
I missed the bus, and then it was of courseToo late to catch the trainThe rain came down through the shelter roof.I sucked a cigarette...
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by Yen-Yen Lu
Handshake
When I speakto my father nowhe is always wearing the sameclothes - olive greencap, matchingzip-up jacketbrown corduroysslightly too shor...
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by Yen-Yen Lu
Book
I am the thought that flies in seconds through a man’s head, and lives for ever.I am all he knew; I am his wordson the other side of the world...
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by Yen-Yen Lu
White Pigeons
are not doves. They do not standfor peace, but flock and swoopabove my head in the blue before dawn.
They are a liquid in the air,e...
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by Yen-Yen Lu
Pirate
There was no mistaking youThough you tried to drownYour beauty in a frown Swore to swagger over your poiseTo salt your arias to the gullsI ...
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