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Aug 29

Ode to America

My love song to America to live up to its promises — Though you say I am not yours, though you pissed all over my front door with your red graffiti hissing “Go back home chink!” you are still my America. Because I still believe in you, not in your self-proclaimed greatness but because you are an idea and not blood, so it can belong…

Spoken Word

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Ode to America
Ode to America
Spoken Word

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Move Me Poetry

·Jul 27

Meetings

A poem about how even strangers find their… —

Dreaming

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Meetings
Meetings
Dreaming

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Genius in a Bottle

·Jun 22

A Day in Louisville

Because a place is a person and not a location, and street names are memories Eyes to see a leaf is what you leave me And an emptiness the shape of you. Your scent releases boundaries until My soul is vast and lonely as space. I wish I had memorized…

Poetry On Medium

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A Day in Louisville
A Day in Louisville
Poetry On Medium

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Pop Off

·Apr 24

Beef, A Modern Spiritual Journey of Grace.

Why the new Netflix series, Beef, is the best story about grace. — You want to know what grace looks like? Grace, that profound and robust Christian theological concept that holds together the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ as a single story, that both days are necessary to each other, and not grace as mannerism or style, then watch Beef on Netflix. …

Grace

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Beef, A Modern Spiritual Journey of Grace.
Beef, A Modern Spiritual Journey of Grace.
Grace

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The Pub

·Mar 4

C.S. Lewis Shows Up to an Evangelical Talk About Him

What happens when the dead person whose ideas you are talking about actually shows up to talk for oneself? — “Welcome to Lewis Center of W. College, the Harvard of Evangelical Christian College,” says the host, Dr. T, a theology professor with a hip trimmed grey goatee wearing a faded Levi’s jeans. He air quotes “Harvard” and “Evangelical.” “We’re here to talk about C.S. Lewis, an Evangelical Christian,” he air…

Humor

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C.S. Lewis Shows Up to an Evangelical Talk About Him
C.S. Lewis Shows Up to an Evangelical Talk About Him
Humor

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Be Yourself

·Feb 28

Physical 100 Shatters Asian Stereotypes and Ruthless Capitalism (sorta)

Why I am glad I watched this Netflix series with my son. — Physical 100, a new Netflix series, shatters Asian stereotypes and ruthless capitalism (well, it’s a start), all while giving wholesome family entertainment — men with washboard abs strip to their pants and women go mud wrestling but no camera angles to hypersexualize it or “hidden” cameras catching a “staged” sexcapade. …

Asian American

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Physical 100 Shatters Asian Stereotypes and Ruthless Capitalism (sorta)
Physical 100 Shatters Asian Stereotypes and Ruthless Capitalism (sorta)
Asian American

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Genius in a Bottle

·Feb 12

What Universe Looks Like

The revealing of my first son — My wife has been in labor for 20 hours but the boy’s not ready for his revealing. What’s he waiting for? She refuses epidural and demerol; going to go the old fashioned way, hicks breathing. How can counting counter pain? hee-hee-whoo hee-hee-whoo I go back and forth from the contraction to…

Birth

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What Universe Looks Like
What Universe Looks Like
Birth

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Catness

·Jan 24

T.S. Eliot’s Cat

My cat teaching me the spiritual discipline of lent

Cats

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T.S. Eliot’s Cat
T.S. Eliot’s Cat
Cats

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No Crime in Rhymin’

·Jan 21

Achilles’s Mother’s Heel

A Poem on The Limits of a Mother’s… —

Achilles

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Achilles’s Mother’s Heel
Achilles’s Mother’s Heel
Achilles

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Genius in a Bottle

·Jan 21

Hyphen

The Swiss-Army hyphen and what it does for identities — There’s nothing as versatile as the Hyphen, a swiss army knife of language, rescue words from any emergency: run-on sentences to adjectivitis even the apocalypse when wielded by MacGyver-hands. The Hyphen isn’t a word, lacks the bone structures of letters. The Hyphen has the morphology of a punctuation, but not…

Hyphen

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Hyphen
Hyphen
Hyphen

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Samuel Son

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