AN IDENTITY CV Poem by Ouyang Yu

By and large:

By blood:






By birth:

By death:

By language:




By mistake:



By nationality:




By nature:

By occupation:



By race:



By skin-colour:





By the way:


not much of a poem to speak of;

han nationality for the last 46 years
including this year but uncertain
if going further back; there could be some
other bloods mixed; a dna test would be
needed to determine the purity or
percentage of purity;

a no hoper, destined to drift for life;

someone australia will regret to have;

capable of speaking only two at the
moment; bilingual in the sense of bi-
sexual or bi-partisan or bigamous or
bipolar;

getting caught by two, wanted by none,
hated by most, and preferring to be left
alone;

australian for the last couple of years;
chinese for the first 43; unashamed of
either; having a bit of problem with
both;

a cross-cultural fucker;

a stateless and statusless poet;
downward mobile; upward wayward;
edgewise, always edgewise;

hard to define at the moment; some sort
of as yet unformulated new theory
would be needed;

supposedly yellow but looking slightly
white in winter or dark in summer if in
receipt of too much sun; preferring to be
changeable according to weather, and
place;

i haven't had a decent job for the last 11
years; would you consider taking me on?