Art: Not Art
Jason Wee
What will we choose of
the twenty-first, a migrant
corpse from which passage,
how will we decide
if its barbedwire is
typical or partisan
if the callus over
the blistered heel is
injury or sculpture?
All over town
art history catalogues
flung out windows and
catalogues of violence
their loosened pages
snowing the sky.
We came to see
the stars, navigation
from homeless to stranded
for those forsaking land
a consolation still made
for us. Eyes up on
the fluttering amnesia
the collector turned
to me this is art.
Jason Wee is an artist, a writer, an editor at Softblow poetry journal. He's edited numerous books, including Boring Donkey Songs, by Lee Wen, and SQ21: Singapore Queers in the 21st Century. He lives in New York and Singapore.