I took back the night. Wrested it
from the Chinese, many of whom
were shorter than me.
Two billion outstretched Chinese
hands, give or take a few
thousand amputees.
A cheap knockoff, the night
proved to be — Nokla
not Nokia on the touchscreen.
Well, even Old Peng gotta eat,
Confucius say. Or maybe that
was Cassius Clay.
In me, folks, a movable object
meets a resistible force. I haven’ t
worked a day since the accident
of birth. Born of woman,
my father the same. Make love
then war. I’ ll bring round the car.
These children that I spit on
are immune to my consultations.
I’ ll have none myself. It isn’ t
(Write it!) a fiasco. I am small,
I contain platitudes.