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Sympathy Is for a Dead Chinese Princess by Raymond Farr

February 22, 2015 by Every Writer

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Sympathy Is for a Dead Chinese Princess

by Raymond Farr

I don’t like fairy tales

I like touch downs
I like potato wedges, says the dead Chinese princess

Who could ever forget her impression
Of a woman turning a page drowning in ennui?

It’s why suicide is a common deterrent
To late night games of gin with Nick & Amy

It’s why a mouth full of marbles
It’s why a dead Chinese princess is full of dimes

& takes all of Sunday
To make love in the park
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Raymond Farr is author of Ecstatic/.of facts (Otoliths 2011), & Writing What For? across the Mourning Sky (Blue & Yellow Dog 2012). He has a chapbook, Eating the Word NOISE! which is slated for February 2015 publication by White Knuckle Chaps & another full length collection of poems Poetry in the Age of Zero Grav due out from Blue & Yellow Dog in mid 2015. He is editor of Blue & Yellow Dog http://blueyellowdog.weebly.com

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