If the Name Is Not Right Says Confucius, the speech Will carry no might, or something To this effect, but I do not care Nor will I put up any fight If you call me chink, chinaman Oriental, ching chong, dog-eater Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan Jeremy Lin, Yao Ming, Ling Ling Even Jap or Gook while pulling Your eyes back. Whatever name You call me, my words do not Go right, since English is never My mother tongue, after all Naming Game Call me Chinaman; call me Kung Flu Call me Chinese Virus; Call me the Spy; Call me model minority; Call me Yellow Peril; Call me Disease Vector; Call me Ching Chong, Chinee, Chink Chinky, Chonky, or whatever else you Like or whatever else you love to invent If only you would forever remain superior Continuing to dominate the planet, main- T(r)aining your order; If only all your true Troubles would vanish before God wakes Up in his heaven! After all, it must take A name to make me as visible or invisible As you wish me to be, while me remains I with all these & countless other names The Worshipping of Names/Nouns No, no, it’s not nominalism of any kind In the English sense of the word, but A long-held tradition of worshipping Nouns ever since Confucius said if the name Is not proper, the speech will not go right Yes, humanity, justice, etiquette, wisdom Faith, then loyalty, filial piety, chastity Righteousness …like a barbaric atheist We believe in each and every one of such Holy nouns, though we seldom practice them As they uphold democracy, freedom, equality Independence, fraternity, and human rights However, this does not mean we all Worship nouns only for nouns’ sake Name Changing Confucius once said If the name is not right Language will carry no might So my father created my name By rearranging the sun and moon Vertically and horizontally To equip it with all The forces of yin and yang Dispersed in the universe Since I became subject To a totally different grammar All people have complained Or made fun of my name So harsh and awkward They conspire to seduce me To adopt a familiar one Like Michael in the powerful speech But to retain the subtle balances In the wild wild world I wander To hold my father’s sunbeam With my mother’s moonlight I fiercely refuse to change it Even though I often feel lost When the sounds I hear Do not sound like my name at all How My Name Is Written in Chinese: Prosperous Tomorrow Programmed 00000000000000 0 0 01111111111111 0 0 00000000000000 111111111111111111111111111 1 1 100000000000000000000000001 1 1 111111111111111111111111111 1 1 0000000000000 0 0 111111111111 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0111111111110 100000000001 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 111111111111 0000000000000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tender Is Your Name: for Helen Qi Hong 1/ I call, I chew, and I cherish your name Each time my heart pumps blood with it Throughout my body. This is the melody Of the symphony of my daily activities As my love runs bubbling along my inner Stream But with my lips closed tight Not a single sound could be heard. Each Day, I call out your name a hundred times Though no other humans can hear me, as all its Echoes are absorbed into my own heart 2/ With all the different names I give you, I have built a long dam, in Our shared mother tongue as in my chosen Language, from the most literary in Song ci to the most vulgar from my home village Each serving as a spillway or sluice gate To discharge my love overflowing In the deep valley of my heart KATE: The Origin of a Given Name : for Kate Emily Yuan K: an other basket you hold anything having a shape but sand or water A: A true apocrypha as the first born to the Semitic family A was originally a picture of an alef or ox, the Agricultural energy that was rotated twice until Alpha loomed up in the Greek psychoscape even before Adam became the chosen father of all Europeans close to Athens, where Apollo had acupunctured wisdom and knowledge into Aristotle, the intellectual ancestor of modern man, who inspired Alexander to make the first effort of globalization, which did not reach East Asia, the land of Ah Q’s, the largest hotel for All travelers until centuries later, but it is Atomic bombs that will blow up all our pasts and send us through America to a higher civilization, where the drop of an Apple is to enable us to fly to the other side of the universe Along the cosmic string as Africa, the heart of human darkness Awaits for Buddha, Jesus, Allah or an other unknown Author to come and rotate for the third time, a scarlet letter of A T: the Egyptian loaf far off the Phoenician mark is still edible now E: born to be a double reed that can be bent into a long vowel, the most frequently used letter in english, echoing endlessly in silences if pulled down, it offers two doors one leading to Soul via will, the other to Him via wisdom; if turned up right it forms a mountain with three peaks like three holy swords, pointing high one against the sun, one against the moon one against the sky facing always towards the east, it embraces existence, equality, eternity, emancipation...
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