To realise
unbroken feudal
sustainability
and uniform ideological
rebirthTo enthusiastically serve
the gross
dharmic product
Our system recognises
an official
order of lama
capitalism
wealth
reincarnation
and
buddha
power suits
A comforting
structure of recognized
prayers
A dynasty
reborn
to administer the struggle
body
with
strong avatar policy—
O beautiful governmentmonks
isn’t this compassion?
Kenji C. Liu is author of Monsters I Have Been (Alice James Books, 2019) and Map of an Onion, the national winner of the 2015 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize. A Kundiman fellow and an alumnus of VONA/Voices, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, and the Community of Writers, he lives in Los Angeles.
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