Jee Leong Koh in NYC at The Back Fence on January 15, 2006 (Video by Roxanne Hoffman)
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Credit: Jee Leong Koh
In 2006 the Singaporean government banned the reading of
his poem, “Come on, straight boy, and make gay love with
me” (from this book) at ContraDiction, the second national
gay pride poetry reading. The ban makes Jee Leong Koh out
to be more dangerous than he is. Born in Singapore, he read
English at Oxford University and studied creative writing at
Sarah Lawrence College. His poems have appeared or are
forthcoming in Singaporean anthologies and American
journals such as Crab Orchard Review, The Ledge and The
Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide. Based now in New York
City, he blogs at http://jeeleong.blogspot.com.
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April 10, Sunday My love is curling dumbbells to his chest because he thinks I don’t love him enough and since he thinks I don’t love him enough my love is curling dumbbells to his chest. I turn the page of a flesh mag, obsessed with groping bodies beautiful and buff. Groping for bodies beautiful and buff, I turn the page of the flesh mag, obsessed. My love is groping dumbbells to his chest to turn his body beautiful and buff because he thinks I don’t love him enough since I am curling the flesh mag. Obsessed, my love is curling as I turn the page, because he thinks I love a beautiful image. |
April 11, Monday I pound and pound this what-do-you-call-it, Elliptical, EFX546, pumping the body all that chemical shit, shooting morning its new daily fix, instead of pondering over a new sonnet: a little song to turn the body cold; a debt requiring its pound of meat; a Mini made from an injection mold. It’s true I haven’t moved although I’ve run 3 miles and, like my writing, I’m as far from what the mind wants and the mirror sees, and though it’s true I pound like everyone on these mass-produced wheels, my chariot-car signals I’ve lost four hundred calories. |