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Timothy Liu

Untitled/Cultivar

Table of Contents

1. Untitled

2. Cultivar



 


Untitled


We went out to Laguna

Sandpaper avenue where the

Blue breeze buttered the boardwalk


I remembered what I meant to ask myself

over Costco pizza with the seaside seasoning

But I stepped on a cactus instead

and spent the next day pulling out the spine


Crossing creosote shores under a pale sonata

What would you call a shell of wood and rusty nails

when it sits so far away from the rocking of the waves

with worn out paddles in the sand



 


Cultivar


Soy boy unemployed

Mama’s little pride and joy

But not papas

Cheddar or better or whether he’ll always be a shadow of a golden sun

Setting off no apologies for a never-was prodigy

Corolla cruising it’s an off price odyssey

Drop the modesty empty head of broccoli forgets what he rote

His license spells American Idiot

They put happiness on his GPS

Living to afford struck accord lord he floored it

Keep counting kale the white collared greens

Pursuit will takes your breath away

Fogging up the rest stop mirror

He sees his head in the clouds -

He asks himself

Is he bok choy or savoy?

Drinking in Napa

Salty cabbage soup



 


About the author

Timothy Liu is Pomona '22 student.



Description

I feel like my work draws from the collision of spaces and the resulting discord. Interference can be constructive or destruction, but mixing overtones creates timbre.

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