{"id":12919,"date":"2020-03-14T19:04:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T17:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=12919"},"modified":"2020-03-15T19:24:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T17:24:39","slug":"poems-by-changming-yuan-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=12919","title":{"rendered":"poems by Changming Yuan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No Art without Startle: 35 Word Idioms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No belief without a lie<br \/>\nNo business without sin<br \/>\nNo character without an act<br \/>\nNo coffee without a fee<br \/>\nNo courage without rage<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>No culture without a cult<br \/>\nNo entrance without a trance<br \/>\nNo epicenter without an epic<br \/>\nNo Europe without a rope<br \/>\nNo freedom without a reed<\/p>\n<p>No friendship without an end<br \/>\nNo fundamentalism without mental fun<br \/>\nNo heritage without a tag<br \/>\nNo glove without love<br \/>\nNo ghost without a host<\/p>\n<p>No groom without a room<br \/>\nNo infancy without fancy<br \/>\nNo life without if<br \/>\nNo malady without a lady<br \/>\nNo manifestation without man<\/p>\n<p>No mason without a son<br \/>\nNo millionaire without a lion<br \/>\nNo nirvana without a van<br \/>\nNo passage without a sage<br \/>\nNo pharmacy without harm<\/p>\n<p>No plant without a plan<br \/>\nNo prevention without an event<br \/>\nNo product without a duct<br \/>\nNo recovery without something over<br \/>\nNo restaurant without rest or rant<\/p>\n<p>No sight without a sigh<br \/>\nNo slaughter without laughter<br \/>\nNo spring without a ring<br \/>\nNo think without ink<br \/>\nNo truth without a rut<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Musings over Metamorphosis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I would paint my skin<\/p>\n<p>Into a colorless color, &amp; I would dye my hair<\/p>\n<p>Wear two blue contacts, &amp; I would even<\/p>\n<p>Go for plastic surgery, but if I really do<\/p>\n<p>I assure you, I will not remove my native village<\/p>\n<p>Accent while speaking this foreign tongue (I began<\/p>\n<p>To imitate like a frog at age nineteen); nor will I<\/p>\n<p>Completely internalize the English syntax &amp;<\/p>\n<p>Aristotelian logic. No, I assure you that I\u2019ll not give up<\/p>\n<p>Watching movies or TV series, reading books<\/p>\n<p>Listening to songs, each in Chinese though I hate them<\/p>\n<p>For being too low &amp; vulgar. I was born to eat dumplings<\/p>\n<p>Doufu, &amp; thus fated to always prefer to speak Mandarin<\/p>\n<p>Though I write in English. I assure you that even if I am<\/p>\n<p>Newly baptized in the currents of science, democracy &amp;<\/p>\n<p>Human rights, I will keep in line with my father\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>Haplogroup just as my sons do. No matter how<\/p>\n<p>We identify ourselves or are identified by others, this is<\/p>\n<p>What I assure you: I will never convert my proto selfhood<\/p>\n<p>Into white Dataism, no, not<\/p>\n<p>In the yellowish muscle of my heart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Art without Startle: 35 Word Idioms &nbsp; No belief without a lie No business without sin No character without an act No coffee without a fee No courage without rage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1416,77],"tags":[1047,1417,1123],"class_list":["post-12919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-62","category-english","tag-changming-yuan","tag-egophobia-62","tag-english"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-3mn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12920,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12919\/revisions\/12920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}