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[ Thanksgiving 2020 ] Character Building
She said not to go
novella on her ...
but I couldn't help myself;
I was like all Korean
love story binging on Netflix
that she was Juonsing for
And had you paid attention
to subtitles, you'd know
how plots tend to thicken
---between us, it was so much
more than six-month-old ganjang
in a Seoul maté cafe
Expressed in caligraphant lines
she was anything but arche'typed
expertly critiquing my witty writs
and explicitly filling my spaces
with verse of celebrated authors
recalibrating my character
from top down so that I
properly stacked up
Lately, she's taken to cornering me
on the playground in such classic
fashion with sheer exuberance!
---lifting up that Teacher's skirt
and flashing her latest secret
trick-of-the-trade[ing] cards:
a Morning Calm Oracle deck
that keeps me spiritually balanced
Beaming likewise, I'm on the straight
n narrow, fast-tracked bullet-train
to becoming not just a great poet
your children's children's children
will one day be studiously emulating
but also who I was meant to be
And for that, I am
gajang gamsahada
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