Sang Yun Jee
What Happens in a Blink
When he blinked and winked
and turned all the world into shiny static
he wanted to see his faces again
so he created the world —your world—
It’s by the red hairless baby with the face of a lab rat
in the purple plastic crib with starfruit and bananas carved outside.
No one knew nor paid respect to the Creator of Worlds,
the Envoy of the End, the infantile King.
But you see, hundreds of people were moved
and thousands of trees were felled
Just so that the world could be a little different.
Or maybe the world simply slipped by him.
But if the infant could really change the world —
its lack of creativity disappoints.
Sang Yun Jee‘s poems have been published in the AIPF Youth Anthology and the What Rough Beast feature of Indolent Books. He currently studies as a sophomore in the Philippines, and is the poetry editor for a student-run magazine, The McKinley Review. He received a gold medal in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.
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