The 'new Yellow Peril' Poem by Chen-ou Liu

The 'new Yellow Peril'



A Haiku Sequence, Two Hundred and Eleventieth Entry
written after Biden signed the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act

'kung flu...'
on a white man's face
this meaty grin

another old Asian man
knocked to the ground
job growth slows sharply

'Go back to China'
this voice at the back door
of my quarantined mind

FYI: A Chinese-American civil rights group is suing Trump for $22.9m for calling COVID-19 the 'China Virus' and 'Kung Flu'. That's $1 for each Asian American and Pacific Islander living in the US. Joshua Zitser, Business Insider, May 22,2021

Sunday, June 6, 2021
Topic(s) of this poem: virus,disaster,illness,racism,violence,jobs
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