{"id":508,"date":"2007-05-07T20:07:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T00:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/07\/cathy-park-hong-lineage-yes-men\/"},"modified":"2007-05-07T20:07:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T00:07:50","slug":"cathy-park-hong-lineage-yes-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/07\/cathy-park-hong-lineage-yes-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathy Park Hong, &#8220;The Lineage of Yes-Men&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Nut&#8217;ing but brine jars y jaundice widows en mine old village.<br \/>\nI&#8217;s come from &#8216;eritage o peddlas y traitors,<br \/>\nwhom kneel y quaff a lyre spoon-me-spondas. Mine fadder<br \/>\nsole Makkoli wine to whitey GIs din guidim to widows fo bounce.<br \/>\nMe grandfadder sole Makkoli wine to Hapenese colonists<br \/>\ndin he guidim to insurrectas&#8230; sticka hop? Some pelehuu?<\/p>\n<p>Afta war, villa men pelt mine grandfadder wit ground stones.<br \/>\nHe stand in de cold tillim fingas frost jawed, until blewblack.<\/p>\n<p>Villagers callim yellow, callim chihuahua <i>ssaeki<\/i>, a dies irae<br \/>\nfo yesman&#8212;he yessed his way to gravestone.<\/p>\n<p>Din mine fadder sole Makkoli&#8212;he a &#8216;Merriken GI chihuahua.<br \/>\nSome populii tink GIs heroes with dim strafing &#8220;Pinko chink&#8221;<br \/>\nbut eh! Those Jees like regula pirates, search fo booty y pillage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He took Jees to war widows tho widows too dry woeing tears<\/p>\n<p>for Eros. He like mine grandfadder yessed y yessed, nodded<br \/>\ntil no lift him fes up. In his deathbed&#8230; sayim to me,<br \/>\n<i>Ttallim, you say no, no, no, you say only no<\/i>. Him fes<br \/>\nwaterlog de liquor y when him die, he retched white.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0393064840\"><i>Dance Dance Revolution<\/i><\/a>, the winner of the 2006 Barnard Women Poets Prize. Hong will be reading with Christian Hawkey and Rachel Zucker tomorrow night at a Bryant Park event sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\">the Academy of American Poets<\/a>. After that, <a href=\"http:\/\/cathyparkhong.com\/\">check her blog<\/a> for future events&#8230; or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/audio\/2000\/10\/05\/hong\/index.html\">listen to her read<\/a> the poem &#8220;Zoo&#8221; at <i>Salon<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nut&#8217;ing but brine jars y jaundice widows en mine old village. I&#8217;s come from &#8216;eritage o peddlas y traitors, whom kneel y quaff a lyre spoon-me-spondas. Mine fadder sole Makkoli wine to whitey GIs din guidim to widows fo bounce. Me grandfadder sole Makkoli wine to Hapenese colonists din he guidim to insurrectas&#8230; sticka hop? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}