To Lynda, a real woman who is capable of f___ long distance

You write

You perform

Write stuff that is close to bone

Perform it well from the heart

You write your mother and her mother you say

The tensions they lived through as Chinese in New Zealand

Where sheep decuple its population yet each person makes a difference

As you powerfully present in Ka Shue or Letters Home

Yet your power never reaches home affairs alone

From the low and marginalized in Honeypants you defiantly eulogize

To whatever dark and ugly you see in the world we can’t really choose

You stretch all out to reach an audience who cares to see a better world to live

People inspire me, you passionately confess

Be the Beat poets or ordinary minds

Which lures me to confess that you inspire me too

With your literary power and natural passion for life

 2005-03-12