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An Ode to Uncle Roger

Chloe L. Yeoh

This poem is part of the SPOONFEED takeover of New Writing, curated by Kat Payne Ware and Sean Wai Keung. You can read the issue in full at spoonfeedmag.com/spoonfeed-x-new-writing

 

There are two types of people:

those who can cook egg fried rice

 

and those who can only try.

Here is the cultural barrier:

 

wok hay. You either have it

or you don’t. In the spirit of stir-fry,

 

here lies the unspoken breadth.

Here lies the gap between your culture

 

and mine, where rice is not

just rice. Where rice, like words,

 

weighs heavy on the tongue

before it passes into thought.

 

 

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