Yi Wei

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Karissa Ho

Song

Yi Wei


Gruff grief, not enough grief. Make enough grief for the rough
grief, love grief, don’t shut up grief, I rebound grief, I make sound
grief. The light round grief, the bright loud grief, that yes yes and
what else grief. Will you work out grief, make me proud, grief, do
that which can be done grief. Wishing you well, grief, wanting your
health, grief, tuck yourself in, grief, it’s not your fault. I want you
to live long, grief, your song, grief, what a beautiful sort of wrong
grief. Won’t be long grief, wait too long grief, leave late and come
back soon grief. It’s no use grief, won’t you move grief, I want another
year with you, grief. I move grief, won’t lose grief, loose move
grief, make roof grief. It’s not what we’re supposed to do grief,
I won’t move, grief, for you grief, I will deliver it all for you.

Yi Wei is a writer unconditionally supportive of Palestinian resistance and liberation. Her work has been awarded or placed for the Frontier OPEN, the Lois Morrell Poetry Prize, the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry, the Sappho Prize for Women Poets, Best of the Net, the Lorraine Williams Poetry Prize, and the Writer in the Public Schools fellowship at NYU. You can find her editing at Asian American Writers’ Workshop.


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