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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		Linh Dinh Linh Dinh is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (Seven Stories Press 2000) and Blood and Soap (Seven Stories Press 2004), and three books of poems, All Around What Empties Out (Tinfish 2003), American Tatts (Chax 2005) and Borderless Bodies (Factory School 2005). His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000 (Scribner 2000), Best American Poetry 2004 (Scribner 2004) and Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present (Scribner 2003), among other places. He is also the editor of the anthologies Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (Seven Stories Press 1996) and Three Vietnamese Poets (Tinfish 2001). Listen to Linh Dinh's reading [42MB] at Woodland Pattern, September 24, 2005.

Eating Fried Chicken Linh Dinh

I hate to admit this, brother, but there are times When I'm eating fried chicken When I think about nothing else but eating fried chicken, When I utterly forget about my family, honor and country, The various blood debts you owe me, My past humiliations and my future crimes— Everything, in short, but the crispy skin on my fried chicken. But I'm not altogether evil, there are also times When I will refuse to lick or swallow anything That's not generally available to mankind. (Which is, when you think about it, absolutely nothing at all.) And no doubt that's why apples can cause riots, And meat brings humiliation, And each gasp of air Will fill one's lungs with gun powder and smoke.

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