from life:
In Korea, the first question people ask after your name is age, not "what do you do?" (aka career) as in the US. I thought this was just because of the culture of age hierarchy, but turns out it runs deeper than that. Talking to a friend who teaches English to Koreans says that they need to know age (aka their status relationship to the person) to even conjugate verbs in Korean. That shit runs deep.
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Soft Night
silent graffiti
sprawling words stretched out on cream pink walls
spattered from on high by the seagulls
that freewheeled and caw-cawed through aharsh pink sky
still graffiti
a motionless oasis
in violence, silent. calm,
but eagerly longing for discovery:
notice me!
here! I am out of place
no whitewashed walls
a monument TO MAN’S INGENUITY
no pyramids of the metropolis
only the loving work of boys
somewhere between testament and confession
they who posses nothing
but are the property of adults
spray themselves out on other adult property
this is mine! until the paint
is covered by another layer
dogs piss at a fire hydrant
silent graffiti
crackling ground under Nikes
and from
far off
the whirr of sirens.
2 comments:
Deep indeed! So, if one wanted to "up" themselves, they just gotta add a few years?
So I bet on forms people round their age up in Korea, where they round down in the U.S.
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