LESLIE'S HOME PAGE
VI
Writings
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Wit writ on back of an April Fool's Day Card sent
to Jim
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Excerpt from Les's application for her teacher's
studies, '79
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Poems dedicated to the Vietnamese Boat People
In Vietnam
chopsticks
are made from
smooth, petrified wood--
In America,
chopsticks
can give you
splinters
I can eat no longer
with an American fork.
Go ahead, stab your meat
I will caress my food
between
2 soft
sticks
of wood.
Death Day
A mound of hard, white rice
Holds the incense spiraling
to ashes.
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Internment near Santa Cruz, CA
Gone,
but in our hearts always.![](flame.gif)