Jason Wee (b. 1979)
SELECTED POEMS
1990
May I first of all congratulate you
handing over my possessions for inspection
have taken the road towards a gracious
I tore up my drawings.
Festival of Arts is now a regular feature
The cell without pictures, I feel sorry to see
them bare.
We are also showing more compassion
did not require two sureties to ensure my
good conduct.
towards the less privileged, contributing
my mother didn't believe what I had said.
All these evidence of our becoming
She looked frail and tired, as if my words
not just one which is good
But when the blue gate opened and they
were told
We are just learning to sing
My belongings and a gunnysack of seized
documents
or end up as a parvenu society, will depend on
a yellow bird had flown into the house,
each and every one of us
home at last
by Jason Wee
excerpted from “Unreliable Evidence” in The Monsters Between Us (2013)
