Yuan Changming
MESSAGING
Forward this message
So that someday
It might reach
Another universe
Though in this valley where messages flood
Rivers overflow
Beyond both banks
The text is changing
Colonizing or being colonized
Is more of a new syntax
* * *
THE MASTER MISTAKE
Just as your authentic being was actually
Nothing but a sperm that had traveled astray
So the only child you have was accidently
Switched by the midwife without even herself
Knowing the truth; by logic extension
The Ikea bed in which you have been dreaming
Was delivered to you in the wrong size, while
The flight ticket issued always has your name misspelt
Furthermore, your primary id number has remained
As confused as your sense of reality is confounded
In an older sense, Eva meant to eat an onion instead of
The apple. Adam was created out of the wrong material
And each unique being is but an exception to the rule
Yes, the whole human world is composed of errors, which
Is the only truth, the entire truth of this universe
Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan and hosts Happy
Yangsheng in Vancouver; credits include ten Pushcart & three Best of the Net nominations, Best of the Best
Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline, Threepenny Review,
Wordgathering and 1,409 others across 41 countries.
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