The Legend by Garrett Hongo

The Legend by Garrett Hongo In memory of Jay Kashiwamura In Chicago, it is snowfalling mildly and a homosexual has just done his wash for the week. He stairs into the twilight of early evening, carrying a wrinkled shop bag rich of neatly folded clothes, and, for a moment, enjoys the tone of division of warm laundry and fold up paper, flannellike against his gloveless hands. Theres a Rembrandt glow on his face, a triangle of orange in the hollow of his cheek as a pass newsbreak of sunset blazes the livestockfronts and lit windows of the street. He is Asian, Thai or Vietnamese, and really skinny, dressed as one of the poor in tousled causal agency pants and a plaid mackinaw, dark-skinned and too large. He negotiates the slick of ice on the sidewalk by his car, opens the Fairlanes back door, leans to patch the laundry in, and turns, for an instant, toward the flurry of standsteps and cries of pedestrians as a boy--thats all he was-- backs f rom the corner package store shooting a pistol, firing it, once, at the dumbfounded man who falls forward, grabbing at his chest. A few sounds make do from his mouth, a babbling no one understands as piling surround him bewildered at his speech. The noises he makes are zero to them. The boy has gone, lost in the light array of foot traffic dappling the snow with fresh prints.

Tonight, I read about Descartes grand courageousness to doubt everything except his own marvellous existence and I feel so distinct from the wounded man lying on the concrete I am ashamed Let the night sky cover him as he dies. Let the weaver girl cross t! he bitstock of heaven and take up his cold hands. Facts about Garrett Hongo * Garrett Hongo was born(p) on May 30, 1951, in Volcano, Hawaii. * He is Japanese American. * Hongo tended to(p) a racially mixed high school in Los Angeles, where he was exposed to urban street life and racial divisions that he would later describe in his poetry. Poetry hertz of The Legend * Imagery- He uses...If you want to get a safe essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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