You Li
You Li is a lawyer and poet who was born in Beijing and lives in New York. Her poems appear in Lunch Ticket, Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s the Margins, The BOILER, Poetry South, and elsewhere. She has received support from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
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Domestic violence arrest, white male, camper in Cedar Ridge II
Boots soft on wet grass and gravel two cop bodies bungling across property lines. What dogs and children run rampant in the murk? What happened in that camper tonight? Sir, did you hurt your wife? No, but she don’t want me no more, so take me to jail. I don’t care! Tell me what happened. […]
Lethal injection
the ugly stares you in the face when Utah still shoots them with rifles instead of needles stares you in the face tongue out when you take to the woman who spent a $202.22 counterfeit check at Walmart the plea offer: who explains you’re my public defender as she tells you you’re the first person […]
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