A Life (by Frank Chin)

(picture by Rachel Roh)

I AM BORN

LIFE IS WAR
MY MA WANTS ME HOME
PAPA WANTS ME OUT
SNIFFING WHO’S WHO
AND WHAT’S WHAT
IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

MOTHER & FATHER ARE NICKNAMES
MY HOME IS THE ROAD PAST YOUR HOUSE

(( LOYAL ORPHAN STORIES -
NAH JAH- MOMOTARO – THE FOLISH IOLD MAN WHO THOUGHT HE COULD MOVE MOUTAINS - URASHIMA TARO – IRON CHEF ))

KINGDOMS RISE AND FALL
NATIONS COME AND GO

(( LAFCADIO HEARN-THE OLD WOMAN AND THE DUMPLING – JAPAN
TOSHIO MORI –SWELL DOUGHNUTS – USA-))

IT'S A GOOD DAY TO DIE
LET THE GOODTIMES ROLL

FOR THE MAN , SEX
IS A REWARD AFTER A HARD DAY’S WORK
FOR THE WOMAN SEX
IS A WAY OF CHOOSING THE RIGHT MAN

((LADY MURASAKI- TALE OF GENJI FIRST HISTORY AS FICTION – YANG KUI FEi – JAPAN
SHE SHARES HIS LIFE, GOES TO SOLDIERING AND HUNTING WITH HIM UNTIL SHE HAS HIS BABY – SHE TEACHES ARCHERY, HORSEBACK RIDING, AND HERDING AND SHEARING AND YARNMAKING AND THE WEAVING , AND THE ARTS OF FARMING.

LUO KUANZHING –ROMANCE 3 KINGDOMS – SECOND NOVEL- CHINA- WHERE ARE THE WOMEN? THEY’RE PARTNERED TO TRADESMEN , INN KEEPERS – FARMERS – NO LITTLE GIRLS -

THE COMIC: MEANING?

JACK SOO: A MAN ASKS.

THE TOXINS ROCKING THE DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE A PEOPLE ARE RELEASED IN THE ART AND ARTS OF THE PEOPLE.

ALL PEOPLES ART IS THEIR SECRET MEANT TO BE CRACKED BY AN INTELLIGENCE EQUAL TO THE PEOPLE.


THE YELLOWS OF AMERICA
HAVE BEEN SPLIT BY THE WHITES-
YELLOWS WHITES LIKE –
YELLOWS WHITES DON’T LIKE -

WHITES LIKE THE AMERICAN YELLOWS WHO HAVE NO ART AND NO ARTISTS NOT CERTIFIED AS FIT FOR AMERICA BY 140 YEARS OF SEETHING, BREEDING, MULTIPLYING WHITE PREJUDICE –

((KAFU NAGAI AMERIKA MONOGATARI JAP WITH MONEY COMES TO SEATTLE WITH DREAMS OF BECOMING A FRENCHMAN LIKE BALZAC, AND HOLDS HIS NOSE AT INFERIOR JAPANESE CULTURE OF SEATTLE JAPANESE COLLECTED IN AMERICA-

DR.KYO KOIKE – from Japan A MEDICAL DR AND MULTI-MEDIA ARTIST ADVENTURER –planting Jap seeds in new soil – Toku Shimomura organizes the Japanese Midwives-

FROM 1849 T0 CAMERON HOUSE AND HEARST IN WHITE SAN FRANCISCO –TO CHAS SHEPHERD –JADE SNOW WONG – TO WWII AT HOME AND ABROAD -

((MONICA SONE, NISEI DAUGTHER- JOHN OKADA – NO-NO BOY ))

BILL HOSOKAWA: NISEI: THE QUIET AMERICANS -“BETTER AMERICANS FOR A GREATER AMERICA” APPROVES ALL JAP PUBLISHING IN USA THRU 60’S. HOSOKAWA DEMANDS MiCHI WEGLYN WRITE THE JACL AS GOOD AND MIKE MASAOKA AS BRILLIANT BEFORE PUBLISHING YEARS OF INFAMY.

MICHI NISHIURA WEGLYN , LEADS HER CHAPTER HEADS WITH QUOTATIONS FROM JAMES OMURA’S TESTIMONY AS A NISEI JOURNALIST BEFORE THE CONGRESS’S TOLAN COMMITTEE, BEFORE CAMPS, “HAS THE GESTAPO COME TO AMERICA?”
SHE SLIPPED ME MORE AND MORE DOC AND INFO VERIFIED THRU ART HANSEN. NUFF SAID, ABOUT HIS BONA FIDES –GOOD FAITH IN LATIN THE WHITE LANGUAGE OF TRUTH.

THE HOLLYWOOD PEARL BUCK CHINESE CHRISTIANS FOR HIRE AND THE JACL- TRIO OF SCIENTIST/JOURNALIST/JACL PROPHET- SAY THE YELLOWS HAVE NO COHERENT SYSTEM OF GOOD FAITH – MOVIE AFTER MOVIE –YEAR AFTER YEAR-
ASIAN AMERICAN ART, WHERE ARE YOU?

THE ORNAMENTAL ORIENTALS , AASTUDIES, YELLOW SOCIAL SCIENCE DISPLACES YELLOW ARTISTS – ORNAMENTAL ORIENTALS TEACH THEIR PEOPLE HAVE NO EXPRESSION OF THE MORAL ISSUES DELIGHTING OR PLAGUING THE YELLOW TILL THE WHITE MAN INTRODUCE PEARL BUCK AND CHRISTIANITY TO CHINA-

THE WHITES LOVE MAXINE HONG KINGSTON TO AMY TAN TODAY, DON’T THEY?
John Roberts kills Korematsu –THE CAMPS WERE LEGAL BUT UNJUST - ?

WHAT DOES JAPANESE AMERICA SAY?