19 Feb 2020: "SPLEEN 3: Supreme White" BY LARISSA LAI

abdominal and/or epigastric pain, digestive issues, heart pain

could the opium have gone bananas

tripped a deeper horror?



say the chiu chau defeat the green gang

take control of the comprador colony

make a chungking mansion

out of every high-rise tower



n tu yueh-sheng n chiang kai-shek

kick mao tse-tung in his long march

and blast chinese workers back

to american levels of oppression



fragrant harbor as chicago of the east

all the girls go suzie

and a thousand gross-out william holdens

fantan the port



reveals america’s fascist sympathies sooner

land of the free goes all man in the high tower

and china industrializes quicker

on gangster cash

enters the arms race

and puts mutual assured destruction on notice



what reversal would right its left then?



say hannah arendt waxes total recall

n chow yun-fat schwarzeneggers

our cyborg asses all the way to daddy cool

too cool for nuclear winter school