Columbus Day, 2005-2006

I was born in 12 October on Columbus Day. I always wanted to see the world. One day, I managed to land on this new world with admiration. The air was fresh like blood. I wandered in the forest and I wondered what would happen if I had come across a red Indian. Shall we be friend? Shall we ignore each other? Or, should I have fired first before he had the chance?

Nothing happened eventually in the dead forest. What a silence!








the birth of TYRANT
GOD you bless
the rest of the world is banished


open open
door
door door open
to the unborn tyrant
ring ring bell
milk the child

silk the child
door door open
to the tyrant
ring ring bell
open open door
to the god blessed TYRANT








zoo me
how many curious eyes are watching me ?
eye me, father in
europe, sister in
china, brother in nowhere
mother in my dream
here, me here
zoo me eye me

curious eyes
who are your mother ?
you don’t remember
even your mother
she has forgotten
her mother














good morning, america.
grandfather said
a man who kills for a cause
will always find his reason
a greedy man kills for money
a jealous man kills for love
an accused man kills for justice
a tyrant kills to keep his power
a humiliated man kills to reclaim his honor
a hungry man kills to survive

few years later
grandfather was killed
by two masked gunmen
for unknown reason











rosapark

rosa was brought up
in the park only in the park
they forbidden her to go out
to see the world/ the wide world the white world
rosa was black the black rosa in the park
among the yellows the pinks the reds and the purples

rosa and park rosa-park rosapark
when days went by rosa and the park became
one the one the solid one the stubborn one
the one who dared to keep her seat
in the bus who brought
her back, at the end of the day
to the real world

















*Poems written by the photographer for this project