the anonymous entrance passing through

the anonymous entrance passing through

the faces that welcomed me back

forgoes the formalities of meeting again

leaving too soon to update or give heart;

like an enlisted man on leave

always leaving

rather than staying 

passing through Jersey through Allentown 

the gas station perineum
Harrisburg

Taichung to Pittsburgh

past into future

here i am now

the calm in everyone’s storm

feeling the stress spinning around me

holding together the planets like a sun

the wife and children of our families

one space-age debris falling out of orbit...

i can speak Chinese on stage for them

a spinning, balancing dish act

gotten real from keyboard cops

a gentrified supreme deportee

getting old while their baby,

wonder of miracles,

a granddaughter
grows without me.
i depart to return from two daughters' families 

with memories, touched memories

better than pixel remedies

February 21, 2018
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