after Iris Chang
 
 
 
I keep reliving
her own
World War
Two traumas.
In which the name of a
popular band references
the prostitution sector
of a Nazi camp,
and the singer
commits suicide before
their first American tour.
Joy Division, indeed.
In which the writer of a book
with a child of her own
writes about the way the Japanese
made hookers of children
and conducted live experiments
on the childless that they
made child-less,
& she is harassed
night after night after night
for months & years
until people with something
to hide have remade her ears
& her eyes into another site of atrocity
& she takes her own life
& while the funeral
is held in Cupertino,
across the world a memorial
for victims of the massacre
make for her, a statue
and a cupid’s wing.
Her child is two.