Shin Yu Pai's Unnecessary Roughness

Sample:

P.E.

there is something
for everyone and for
everyone else
there is

running or jumping
in place a basic
knowledge of the body’s
locker room

unlettered sweatshirts
and white crew socks
rubber shoes and rubber
pants’ed again, show

your school spirit or
just your undergarments
soiling the parquet floor
of the gymnasium

on a rainy day,
the school colors are drab
grey as any prefab notion of
taught "fitness"

a sense of team or
tribe, it’s cannibals
and rats who delight
in eating their own

- from Unnecessary Roughness (xPress(ed), 2005)

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Biography:

Shin Yu Pai is the author of Unnecessary Roughness (xPress(ed), 2005), Equivalence (La Alameda, 2003), and Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers (Third Ear Books, 1998). She is currently artist-in-residence at the University of Texas at Dallas.

For more examples of the vispo in Unnecessary Roughness, please visit:
http://www.moriapoetry.com/pai1.html
http://www.williamjamesaustin.com/dodgeball.html
http://www.williamjamesaustin.com/roundandrounditgoes.html
http://www.williamjamesaustin.com/thewetarea.html

To purchase Unnecessary Roughness, please visit:
http://www.lulu.com/content/103810

For more information on Shin Yu Pai and her poetry, please check out her blog: http://makura-no-soshi.blogspot.com/