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All We Ask Is You to Be Happy by Angie Sijun Lou

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4.0

angie sijun lou has produced some of my all-time favorite digital poetry + flash fiction, so to get to see selections of it held open between my hands is especially enthralling:

When I was very young, I asked Baba what drowning feels like, and he said not everything feels like something else.




At night, I dream of a Buddha / who never prays. He plucks drones from the sky, / sucks on them like lollipops.




After they made me, the first thing they did was peel the cellophane from my eyes. I blinked once, twice, and cried because that’s how you say you are alive before you are given language.
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