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Subject: LOWER EAST SIDE, NEW YORK CITY Matches Found: 126 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADIOS, VAYA CON DIOS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: (scene: Last Line: A kiss on each cheek to soften the blows Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City AMERICAN ACTRESS (1907-1961), by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Anna may wong Last Line: Speaking chinese %with american accent Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City AND IF I SAID 'MING' TO YOU, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Would you hear me Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City ASIDE FROM THE TREES IN COLUMBUS PARK, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Forgetting the fan-shaped leaves of wind %and ripple Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City BEEKMAN DOWNTOWN, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: The elevator smells of an operation Last Line: The moment they enter the door Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City BEHIND THE CHATTER, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: You can have the ocean Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City BREAD, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Come walk the streets of the bowery where time is not Last Line: Bundles of raggedy andy dolls %and tell me you care Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City BREAD #2, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Black voices hit the air Last Line: Archie shepp's fire escape %a prostitute's window Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CANTONESE OPERA AT SUN SING THEATER, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Diamonds glitter in black hair Last Line: The rumble of the night train to brooklyn Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CELEBRATION, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Bravo for wondrous circumstance Last Line: Celebrate the one asian american in the crowd Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHAUL, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Chinese %silk Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHINA, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: On west lake Last Line: Crouching in the dark Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHINATOWN HEARTBREAK, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Uncertain of the days to come Last Line: Nights when love lit up her lanterns Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHINATOWN SIGN, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Sweet olives Last Line: 4 for 10c Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHINATOWN, SAN FRANCISCO, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Oldtimers play pinball to quicken the heart Last Line: You are a sight for sore eyes %I am in a state of reverie Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHINESE DENTIST, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: With your apartment Last Line: Hoping to save a few dollars Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHINESE NEW YEAR, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: See me on sunday Last Line: As we feast for three nights Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHINESE NEW YEAR. YELLOW CHRYSANTEMUMS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Follow. Oranges to cut. Shrimp chips %flowering Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHINESE POEM, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Since we last saw one another Last Line: To feast on a bowl of noodles Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHINESE WOMEN, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Old woman at the window Last Line: I hope your reverie and view %do not leave you unhappy Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CHOPSTICKS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: A memory of ivory chopsticks Last Line: Like a pair of ivory chopsticks Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City COCKROACH DREAM NIGHTMARE. BANGING, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Overturned on its back struggling. I %must reread metamorphosis Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City COUGH REMEDY, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: A loving gesture Last Line: I was so tickled Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City CRADLE SONG FOR MIEKO, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Dark-eyed baby Last Line: A home in the country Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City DISCOVERY OF THE SECRET POWER TO, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Wired mobile. I don't think I %can read them Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN IT SEEMED THE WHOLE WORLD, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Eternal windowshoppers %we women are sometimes like children Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City DON'T LEAVE ANY RICE IN YOUR, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Needed to cook the rice with %index finger Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City DONDE SE VENDEN PAVOS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Old woman from el salvador Last Line: Warm smiles and always the parting %que le vaya bien Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City DOUBLE TEN (10/10 DAY), by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Early morning Last Line: The strong smell of black mushrooms Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City DREAM COLLECTION, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: A man with dashiki lips Last Line: Two peaches beneath a tree Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City EAST SIDE MOVING PICTURE THEATRE - SUNDAY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old woman rubs her eyes Last Line: Were standing before their last heaven. Subject(s): Heaven; Lower East Side, New York City; Motion Pictures; Prayer; Sabbath; Paradise; Movies; Cinema; Sunday EATING ORANGES, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: An orange eaten the chinese way Last Line: Picks one up %sucks on it Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City ECHOES OF THE NIGHT TRUCKS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Brave cross mott street on a %diagonal Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City EN BUSCA DEL BARRIO CHINO DE LIMA..., by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Chan-chan, chunga...Chan chung Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City EVERY SUNDAY WE GO TO 'JEW STREET,' ORCHARD TOWN, TO, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Heads, one-armed, even one naked bride with no nipples Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City FLOWER LIFTS ON MOTT STREET, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: That sings a fresh song %every dawning Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City FOR A LION DANCER, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Beneath bright colors of a lion mask Last Line: Strike a strong lion's pose for me %dance into my life Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City FOR LI PO, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: They read your poem still Last Line: We remember your middle name Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City FOR MY GRANDFATHER'S FRIEND, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: They said you were a gambler Last Line: I wonder are they flowering still Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City FOUND CHINESE POEM, 1944, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Mango bird Last Line: Sweet spirit of rice Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City FRUIT MUTATIONS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Grape approaching lichee Last Line: Peach approaching mango Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City GLOSSARY, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: A piece of rice--term applied to a lazy person Last Line: Duck shit green--olive green Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City GOOFY LALA WAS THE WICKED WOMAN WHO LIVED ON ELIZABETH, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Away quickly because she threw bottles when she became %angry Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City GREAT AMERICAN YELLOW POEM, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: She heard tales about saving grapefruit skins for cooking Last Line: Visions of ochre and citronella eluded her Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City GUATEMALA, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Two babies sitting in the doorway of the hotel Last Line: The sign on one doorway %se venden tortillas Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City HALF A MAN, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: One cold christmas night Last Line: You wouldn't be here %waiting for no damn bus Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City HARE KRISHNA PEOPLE COME, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Their shaven heads. They look %like pale white ghosts Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City HE CAME DOWN THE HALL WITH BLACKNESS IN HIS PUPILS,, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: You leave, he will ask you to bring toothpicks the next %time you come Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City HE WAS GROWING OLD, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: She wanted more Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City HE WEARS A UNIFORM OF RED AND BLACK, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Twenty years now. They are empty and %full of dust Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City HONG KONG, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Into the hallway Last Line: While we drop coins %into her plate Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City I AM FRUIT CRAZY. I LOVE SIX, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Translucent skin. Spanish fruits %are feminine Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City I CALL HER THE TEA LADY (TO MYSELF) BECAUSE I, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Association. She seems imported Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City I DISCOVER THE OTHER WOMEN IN MY FAMILY. MY, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Limited to sentences like, 'I've just eaten half %an orange at grandma's.' Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City I HAVE VERY LITTLE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: It grows and obeys me Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City I WENT TO SLEEP LAST NIGHT, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: To a pawnshop %one day Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City IF IT IS TRUE THAT YOU ARE WHAT YOU, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Discovery of a field of chrysanthemums %in a teapot Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City IN A CORNER OF THE SUBWAY DOOR DISCOVERED, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: And you in every tree Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City IN SEARCH OF CHINESE MADNESS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Red and green doors Last Line: Chinatown is open tonight Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City IT IS THE SAME WALK, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: For whom did you think it would change color? Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE IF PEOPLE SAW HER AS SHE SAW, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Friends wrote from europe wishing her a happy %valentine's day Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City KALEIDOSCOPE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Chinatown Last Line: Tie a red bow around it Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City LOVE SONG, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: A young chinese scholar writes Last Line: The garden of peonies in your dress %was it by the pearl river Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City LOVE'S CANOPY, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Can of peas Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City LOVERS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Once loved a man downtown Last Line: Loved me in an ancient way Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City LUNCHTIME AT THE FACTORY IS A FAMILY AFFAIR. MOTHER AND, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Replicas of your own dust-ridden window. Lunchtime is %suddenly over Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MAGICIAN GROWING BEAN SPROUTS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Looking for the right one Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MAH-JONG PLAYERS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Under the halo Last Line: Circles birds flowers %swirling through the game Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MANGO DID NOT KNOW WHAT SHE WANTED, NOT FROM THE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Important. Afraid that she would lose her power to dream Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MARRIAGE SIGNS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Two incense sticks burn as one Last Line: You drink the tea I pour for you Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MEXICO, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: The smell of tortillas and cilantro Last Line: Fresh smell of el campo %luciernagas Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MIDDLE DAUGHTER, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: How soft it felt Last Line: Who leaves home only to return again Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MOSQUITO, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Love song %tonight Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MOUNT TAMALPAIS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: A picnic for all soothing times Last Line: I read o book of poems in a wheatlike meadow Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MOVIE THEATER FILLED WITH STICKY, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Apartments as eyes focus on a slightly %different world Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City MY ITALIAN GIRLFRIENDS DRESSED UP ON SUNDAYS IN DRESSES AND, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Our separate ways on sundays Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City NEON LIGHTS THAT WARM NO ONE. HOW LONG, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Stare as if under a pond. The %irony reeks Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City NIGHT LIGHT, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: On the coral night lamp Last Line: Small beauty floods the room Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City NO ONE USES WORDS SUCH AS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: 78 rpm chinese records Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City ODE TO A PATCHWORK QUILT, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Hanging delicately on the wall Last Line: The aura of times no longer Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City OF THREE MINDS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Forest selva Last Line: Bamboo bambu Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City OH LUCKY ME, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Chinese food was delicious? Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City ON NEW YEAR'S EVE WE THROW THE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: The power of the great Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City ON SATURDAY, IT IS 14TH STREET FOR SHOPPING. CLOTHES AT A, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Your daughter on an uptown street Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City ONE BLACK BOY ON A CLASS TRIP, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Excitedly: hey, look at that %ninety year man! Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City ONE CHINESE APPLE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Take small crimson bites Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City PACIFIC AVENUE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Chinese voices fly up from the street Last Line: Even the vegetables take on new forms Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City PHILODENDRON PLANTS. MONK'S FOOD AND, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Moved along canal street fascinates me Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City PIROPOS DE LA CHINITA, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Mamita linda Last Line: Corazon de melon Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City PLEASE DON'T TELL ME YOU'RE SORRY. DON'T BOTHER. THAT, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Door, leaving your shadow standing on the wall Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City POEM FOR AN INDIAN SCHOLAR, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: A friend sent me a book of asian love poems Last Line: And write poems %I wonder is it that easy Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City PURPLE POEM, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Shades of lilac and lavender Last Line: By the light of the full moon Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City RECUERDOS DE LA CHINITA EN GUATEMALA, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: The call of chinita Last Line: Give away my chinese fan Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City REFERENCES TO YOUR HOME AS A GHETTO. ANCIENT, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Tenements. Sociological labels. A chinese %wonderland Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City RIDING THE SUBWAY IS AN ADVENTURE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Pennies in the first pocket have disappeared, %she knows that she is home Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City SA GOW, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: In my father's village in china Last Line: Posing for a proud portrait %in my father's village in china Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City SCENES GATHERED FROM A CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Clouds clearing away Last Line: My dull mind is suddenly opened Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City SITTING ACROSS FROM ME ON THE BUS A CHINESE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: With the stage sometimes shifting to the %subway Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City SUMMER NIGHTS WE SPENT ON THE COOL STOOPS. WE WORE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Between two chairs and it turned into a bazaar of %miscellaneous goodies Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City SURREALISTS ON EAST HOUSTON, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: A brick wall is painted in layers of piss and smells Last Line: And wears a pin in the form of a palette %the surrealists dream of red sneakers Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City TAIWAN, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: The place where Last Line: Became sun and %everything came true Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THAT STIFF FIGURE THERE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: And the tears they come Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THAT ZEN TIME IN THE SNOW, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Everything is pleasant Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THERE ARE MORE CHINESE BUMS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: One of them looks like a poet Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THERE IS A GROUP OF CHINESE-AMERICAN MEN WHO THINK OF, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Calligraphy, consult the ching and go to sword flicks to %blow their minds Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THEY ARE SEEN IN DIFFERENT, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Saw a man waiting for a bus %tonight. Womanless Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THEY DRESS ALIKE AND CUT THEIR BLACK HAIR INTO, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Get a permanent. They speak chinese sprinkled %with many english words Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THEY MUST HAVE ME LEARN MY LESSONS OF VIOLENCE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: No more pepperoni in the toilet bowls Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THEY WANT ME TO SETTLE DOWN, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Whispers that I haven't seen peking Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THIS CHINESE WARRIOR, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: And tells no one his name Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City THREE PEASANT DAUGHTERS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: One wore glass bangles from canton Last Line: One looked out over blue water %dreaming of falling stars Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City TULIPS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: In crayon gardens Last Line: Lamp tulip tree %tulips in bloom Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City VIET NAM, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Viet nam %bomb Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WALKING ALONG THE BOWERY, CAN'T, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Of blind prostitutes in hong kong Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WE ARE SAILING OFF, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: And a lovely drunkenness %washes over me Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WE SPENT SUMMER AFTERNOONS CATCHING FLIES THAT HOVERED, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Spaghetti. Only now do I realize what the pink neon sign %read--wines Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WE STOLE A SNAIL FROM THE OUTDOOR BASKETS IN FRONT OF THE, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Our fingers to see if it was home Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WE USE NEWSPAPER FOR A, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Food when I am older Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WEDDING, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Wishes cover the red silk Last Line: To make of the feast one nightblooming flower Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WELCOME TO CHINATOWN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Where happiness has resigned itself %to have tea every sunday afternoon Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WHEN THE WATER IN THE POT IS, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Water is singing a song Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WHERE IS THE COCKROACH WHO LEFT, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Its footprint on my bowl? Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WINTER FESTIVAL, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Unearthing a new voice Last Line: Our rice pot so full %its lid won't stay put Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City WINTER WIND SITS IN THE LIVING ROOM, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: What do we wear when we go outside? Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City YO VIVO EN EL BARRIO CHINO, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Times when chinatown is the %only place to live... Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City YOUNG MAN DRESSED IN WHITE IS A BARBER AT, by FRANCES CHUNG Poem Source Last Line: Smiles and walks away in the direction of the %men's room. You are on the way to lima Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City |
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