Vivek Narayanan #1: 'Same Words': a response to Cui Yuwei's 'Key Words'

See Cui Yuwei's Key Words here.

Same Words

            Looked at me thinking I was one of them,
      did the foreigners living in my city. 
  They like to wear grey and recite
          Bukowski.  These people!  Such beggars
            of attention, such fancy merchants
 of fart and feces and pee!  How the hell do they think
  they can get away with using all the same words, just culled
  from the sorting of the poems of the year?  Nothing but
 disabled mouthpieces, prostitutes!  I’m not one of them, believe me, believe me.

           (on a bus  the only other passengers
        my mom and her daughter
      later I’ll keep the story
  from the students in my class, disappear
          behind the peasant workers of
                   a textbook’s pencilish sketch)