Yours Truly 2017 / Cascadia College / Bothell, WA 2017 YT Online Book | Page 79

The Only Rock Singer
Xiwen Mai
the only rock singer you love
is fresh and soft like a falling leaf
— to my child
the stormy Rachmaninoff doesn’t disturb you
but rather excites and cheers you up
what things did I fail to say better
those younger years, dark and depressive
wish I could replace them
with all the sweet music, lovable
like the old, orange setting sun
the yolk of a pickled duck egg in the sky
on our long road, bumpy and dusty
full of homesickness for the distant
words you had yet to know
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