Exclusiveness lies in the seed of all tribes
She’d read in her Ant-hop-apology class,
Understanding Others As Ourselves, but was
Such ob/subjectivity just realist
Fiction? to know thyself hard enough business
Even for the least lazy self who would choose
To unlid that Pandora’s carton: + Dilys
Had grown up in the shadow of drugstore shelves
Off which small boxes + bottles often fell
Because her busy parents were too sloppy
To bother with stacking their stock properly:
As a child she’d seen that what her parents called
Producks – things that sometimes broke + sometimes spilled –
Came in small boxes that came in big boxes
Some black-stamped POISON, others MADE IN TEXAS
& most marked with mysterious fine-fine words
(from "Raponani", a verse novel by Brian Chan, 2023)
FARJOURNEY CARIBBEAN 