}} Proof 4: Elvis Yip Kin Bon, If You Miss Home (2016, single-channel video) |

Poetry at Sangam

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Proof 4: Elvis Yip Kin Bon, If You Miss Home (2016, single-channel video)

This is your cultural capital speaking.
Shrouded in mosaics, timed
and spent by a video, what will

you do? Think, I will, the future
of my son. Your melancholy
is overbooked. We ask you to focus.

To practice: … bridge is falling down.
Downed ownership: What
will you do if you miss your family?

I will keep myself busy. Focus,
adjusted, falling down. But self:
Ah –– This is cultural

capital speaking. Your self
is sublingual. Kalautidakbobo:
If you are not sleeping, odd

your self out. Self in English only,
such as: wood and clay
will wash away.Such as R.I.P.

for self storage. Ah, I will hard work,
boy bared. It is human interest
to have verbs come first:

done work, bear this. Ah ––.
Diaspora, prolific in bawling.
Infirm. Of it we don’t speak

much here. Though sere,
severed, focus. Even iron bars
will bend and break. What will

you do if you break? Photos,
wrinkles, blender. Remember,
no one expects shoes

to clean themselves. Ah ––.
Self: neither an ad
nor a calling. To box it, we ask

you, what is worse than falling:
a floor that cants and can’t
refuse what falls.

 
The poem first appeared in diode.