Don Mee Choi
Neocolony’s Colony
Neocolony’s Colony
You provide the prose poems, I’ll provide the war
Aye, aye, Sir!
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Me Translate, Sir!
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Me Binh Tai / Me been there, Sir!
Me Binh Hoa / Me been high, Sir!
Me Dien Nien–Phuoc Binh / Me 9 9–bow bow, Sir!
Me Go Dai / Me good dad, Sir!
Me Ha My / Me hate milk, Sir!
Me Phong Nhi & Phong Nhat / Me flunky & fuck that, Sir!
Me Tay Vinh / Me terrible, Sir!
Me Vinh Xuan / Me VC no, Sir!
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Me Tiger, Sir!
ME ~ OW
KITTY STEW
Under the starry night
Why, it's practically a jungle
Hello Fatty! Hello Kitty!
Meow I love SPAM!
SPAM patties
Browned in lard or Crisco
Leftover sour kimchi
Don't be a pussycat
Jungle water
Boil Boil
Yummy!
Miss you Mommy!
0 tremor—tremor, going from a lying or sitting position to a standing position
Are you OK, ROK?
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
just like the ones I used to know, Sir!
무궁화, Sir!
White Horse, Sir!
Blue Dragon, Sir!
May all your Christmases be white, Sir!
Walking, crawling, or growing
Children listen where the treetops glisten
Search and destroy, said 수국
(Chorus of 0)
0 dream— no face just a wide-open belly
0 fetus in the split womb
0 cut off the baby cord
0 war— breasts cut out and woman shot by ROK marines
0 US marines transport her to the hospital but she died soon
0 war— executed young women's bodies
0 jungle leaves
0 pregnant woman's forehead blown off
0 fetus all alone
0 dream—tiger teeth scrambled
0 parade of operations
0 bonuses!
Operation Flying Tiger, Sir!
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„Neocolony's Colony“: This title is based on Remco E. Breuker's: „Korea's Forgotten War“ in the online journal Korean Histories 1, no. 1 (2009): „While Manchuria was the colony's colony (at least in the popular imagination) during the Japanese colonial period, Vietnam became the colony's colony during the period of US dependency in the late sixties and seventies.“ […] „You provide the prose poems...“ is from Citizen Kane (film, 1941). […] The Capital Division of the South Korean Army was also known as the Tiger Division, responsible for massacres of civilians in teh Binh Dinh Province. […] I wove into the poem dreams I had after learning about the massacres.