Misrecognition
I thought a white
guy stumbling
were you
the same faces
disarm contraries
will the ants
find a way
to a hand full
of queens
I give? or
in any migration
only nuisance
multiply willingly
Conversation with friend
exhaust political
lexicon to account
for an annoyance
in your tone
a fury eruption
closing in
it pleases yet
yet it calls
for an escape
when the statue
of order as cold
as your volcano
stands in
between rebuttals
and these lowly
rebels I birth
am I still
your friend?
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Yuyi Chen (they/them) is a poet, fiction writer, and hopefully-would-be scholar from Sichuan, China. They are now in a PhD program in anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.