I drew an island

written in Huizou, China, 2005

I drew an island on the board

“egg”

I heard about four students behind me.

Yes, I am the fried egg

Looking for my island. 

One day I scribbled an automobile

From a birds eye view

One with four circles for tires

One a stick figure of the same

 

Then there was a horse

an ugly mutation

of beaver mixing it up with an aardvark

Bringing howls of protest, scorn

And thirteen year old ridicule.

 

Boats are ok with their triangle masts

I can do a canoe

But put a human near it

And it’s time to wonder

Comedy

Confusion

Consternation

 

To show where my th’s came from I drew

 A grotesque head from the side

With big teeth

Open wide

And a zucchini tongue

Protruding out

The es sound demonstrated

Where the vegetable muscle

Slithers down this abomination.

 

But everyone laughs.