Table of Contents
Pineapple 3
Who'd Rob God? 7
Fu ER Dai
Bandaids Didn't Make a Color for Me, or Thinking Inside the Box, or Crayon within the Lines 8
Pomelo 12
Not Your Bernini's Daphne 14
Pyramid Scheme 17
Everything about You Is Offensive Except Your Cat 19
Bye Bye 21
One Child Policy is the Party Pickup Line 23
Antimatter 25
Search Engine 26
Modes of Production 32
How Can You Tell If It's Ripe Yet? 33
Go Big or Go Home 35
To Bear False Whiteness 38
When the Still Breathing Watch the Stillborn 40
Buddha Discovers Reincarnation and Reaches Nirvana under the Fig Tree's Heart-Shaped Leaves 43
Multiple Worlds Interpretation 46
Oregon 1945 47
Outside Party Lines 50
While I'm Not a Heroic Couplet 52
Quid Pro Nil 54
Halloween 56
To Scare Men 58
Nanjing 1937-38 59
Advocacy 61
Halloween Redux 62
Matryoshka 66
Deportation 67
The Sign for Power 69
Spooks 72
Pidgin 82
Acknowledgements 84