THE WARTIME ISSUE

Lori Tsang

 

MAKING A KILLING

logistics
civil augmentation
program  $830
million  operation northern
watch  turkey  $118
million  camp strong
hold freedom  uzbekistan 
$22 million  bagram
& khandahar  afghanistan  $42.5
million  guantanamo air
base and detention
camps  $300 million  iraqi oil
field repair  $7
billion  dick
cheney on speed
dial 
priceless
(a bargain at $1 million/year)

 

 

Lori Tsang was raised by a Chinese Jamaican mother and an "American" Chinese father in Connecticut and Indiana.  She currently lives in Washington, DC, where she was identified as one of "100 People to Watch in the New Millennium" by the Washingtonian Magazine. She received the 1997 Mayor's Art Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist and a 1999 Artist Fellowship.  She is the author of two chapbooks, and her poems have been published in Controlled Burn, Gargoyle, Crab Orchard Review, Drumvoices, and The Asian Pacific American Journal.


Published in Volume 7, Number 2, Spring 2006.