Bratville

By Carrie Chang

This fine book of poetic verses is a lingua franca of zoo element and libertarian circus act, filled with ABC identity clauses that will knock your socks off, designed for leisure reading by bratty creaturinas who long to simper under the scintillating sun, and preach by the silver moon

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 4, 2023
• ISBN: 9781669861874

Carrie Chang

Carrie Chang was born in 1970, in Syracuse, New York. She attended Stanford University, UC-Berkeley and New York University, obtaining her B.A., and M.J. and M.F.A. in English and journalism and creative writing, respectively. She worked as an Asian American journalist in the arts/political field for almost a decade, creating her own magazine, “Monolid,” and lives as a writer/poet in the Bay Area. Her favorite pastimes include swimming and painting.

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Rev. date: 01/04/2023

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dedicated to Thich Nhat Hanh)

Contents

Bratville

Old Confucius Standards

Oh, Americana!

Twinkie Toyennes

Last Hotpot

Spaceship Titters

Sampan Sailoresse

Jungle Fever Jingles

Time Spocking

Americana Brat

Betelnut Healers, etc.

Lost Friends, Beware

Saturday Afternoon Jibes about an Au Tout Fetish

Defy The Odds

Like a Wit, Ms. Butterfly

A Few Stitches of Mencius

Shy

Every Bingo Year

Inside Out

Canto Misfits

Throbling in Topaz

Lavender Fields

Past Tense Creeper

The Mandarins

Mumbo Jumbo

Asian Valley Girl Schemes

Modern Day Minnie Mouse

No Duh

Tai Chi Days

Alienated at A Party

Leave-Taking

Leather Monkey

Say Peach

Dreams of Jughead in The Soul Factory

Arrows to My Heart

Spartacus, etc.

Real Tight Shoes

Speedy Lives

Fallow Hours

Mao Tai Witness

Sister Peach

Driving Insomniac

Botero Playground Universalis

Green Wasabi Coat

Gentle Bones

Confessing in The Fifties

Roboto Femme

Jumping Jack Children

A Fine Subtle Palace

A Date at Lee’s Sandwich’s in The Morning

Painting a Chinese Mona Lisa

A Taoist Recluse

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And the waving meridian fan

Went out to punch, by the Costa Rica restaurant

Where the posse of us would have lunch,

Deep blue sassafras dreams subsumed

In minds of grey, effulgent luster, there was

Going to be a Day, of superpalazzo banana fronds

Now steaming from silver strands, and cosmos

Of a different kind, quite foreign

From foreign lands, this invincible will to be

A denizen of the planet-yet-to-be

Now clouded with the Men of Mars,

Or words of ubiquity, why charge on forward

Into the light-brigade, if you don’t have lunacy,

That awkward hurt, or years of rollicking,

The obstinate pea eye foundered, steel heart

Still kicking, left to right was morning sent,

A missive from the president, go wither

Sanctum harbors you best,

Your head a thing of twittering rest,

Sleep sleeper in a fretful rose,