George Bilgere

Chinese

All the girls this summer are Chinese,
So sexy in their iPods, their Goon Squad
T-shirts, God, they drive me crazy!
They've got that look, that sleepy,
Ancient, fog-shrouded hotness,
But they don't give a shit
About the Tang Dynasty or Zen.
No lacquered bowls for them.
Just turn up the Wu Tang
And make the Starbucks sizzle.
Let the Chinese girls
Play with the starry hair
Spun of black holes and antimatter,
Let them close the temples
Of their eyes and dream
Of silken algorithms, let the dumb
Kids in the back of the class
Look up in wonder at their smooth-assed
Porcelain IQs, while the dazed
Boys graze in the pastures
Of their beauty, and the poor
American chicklets stand around,
Stunned and deposed, saying
Like like like —
Like you can do anything about it.
It's over, get used to it, you're
Toast, you blond retard, the Chinese
Are multiplying likes bees
In the honeycombs of their cities,
Their breasts full of physics,
Their eyes dark
With quarks, their nipples
Destroying our libraries!

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George Bilgere is the author of The Good Kiss, which won the University of Akron Press Poetry Prize in 2001. His new book, Haywire, won the 2006 May Swenson Poetry Prize, and will appear in summer of 2006 from the Utah State University Press. He teaches at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.