forbidden!
is the word that gives a sense of
power.
for someone like her
that sense of power has something to do with
inseCUrity
hence a watchtower:
"you, are not to see me, but I am."
tragic as it is
inseCUrity is never secure
a corner tower at every corner
needs yet to be secured with a moat all around the
forbidden city
standing inside the tower of power
she spread both her arms like 大
"I, am in charge!"
blue sky grinned from above
for she had missed her final lesson:
天
her moat freezed
snow concealed her schemes
amidst all sophisticated words she could speak under
a curly tongue
she couldn't write her own history
All in a day's work, the CUNning-C-
天
Even Beijing in winter outside the Forbidden City did not send me this much chill.
February the Seventeenth
2020
