Teh A finger neither deformed nor really fat But it happened to hit the wrong key At the right moment, or the right key At the wrong moment, thus making A handsome typo stand out Among all normal-looking words On a different keyboard You would be a thrilling improvisation A fresh note rather than a strange noise Or, like a comet in the summer sky You might strike the whole night bright You are never meant to be, but you always are The commonest nonsense making perfect sense In every context, or are you not? Word’s Wisdom Each error leads to A terror, just as does Every if to a wonderful wife Or even An accomplished life Happy Error The greatest mistake he has made is His success in winning the heart And then the body of a pretty woman But since their quick marriage, he has been Suffering from an emotional bully, who Makes him cry tearlessly in the depth Of nightly loneliness while he knows She is the only, the best woman He is fated to share his life with forever. Indeed Like Xanchippe who supposedly turned a Depressed man into a philosopher, she Is a god-sent to make him a poetry author The Master Mistake Just as your authentic being was actually Nothing but a sperm that had traveled astray So the only child you have was accidently Switched by the midwife without even herself Knowing the truth; by logic extension The Ikea bed in which you have been dreaming Was delivered to you in the wrong size, while The flight ticket issued always has your name misspelt Furthermore, your primary id number has remained As confused as your sense of reality is confounded In an older sense, Eva meant to eat an onion instead of The apple. Adam was created out of the wrong material And each unique being is but an exception to the rule Yes, the whole human world is composed of errors, which Is the only truth, the entire truth of this universe Yuan Changming published monographs on translation before leaving China. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver; credits include ten Pushcart nominations, the Naji Naaman's Literary Prize 2018, Best of the Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Threepenny Review and 1,449 others worldwide.
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