Poets/John Yau

John Yau

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There are rooftops …

John Yau

The world weeps. There are no tears …

John Yau

I used to be a plastic bottle …

John Yau

As you may have inferred, Ka Pow is not a spicy chicken dish …

John Yau

They are dying out and I want to reach them before they are gone …

John Yau

Come live with me …

John Yau

It had to be from someone whose grandparents were born in Shanghai …

John Yau

Or is it …

John Yau

A blue and green city, with the sun rising behind it, just not swiftly enough …

John Yau

It does not do you like it …

John Yau

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