You Don't Know Me
Tammy Ho Lai-Ming

you don’t know listening to the first few seconds of a 1990s Cantonese pop-song on the plane would make me cry.
you don’t know the way I shuffle a deck of Ukrainian cards.
you don’t know how I build fast carousels by spinning a pen while reading obstinate men.
you don’t know an electric dragon got into my first kiss in 1907.
you don’t know I had a crush on someone who taught me _[this word]_ and _[this word]_.
you don’t know: clouds are waves, clouds are hearts, clouds are everywhere, accusatory, nowhere, clouds yell, clouds love, clouds don’t know a thing, clouds cloud you. How can clouds be pandas? Talk to clouds. All wet, wet, wet. Atlas clouds, phone clouds, tag clouds.
you don’t know: I hummed you a mannequin lullaby in Winter. We had fur coats on. They sold so well. Summer came and we were split. I heard you are now on the third floor. Me? I’m at the attic. Come find me.
you don’t know I wish I could be loved, truly, by more than one and can love no one in return.

TAMMY HO LAI-MING is a Hong Kong-born writer currently based in London, UK. She is a founding co-editor of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. More at www.sighming.com

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ISSUE :: 2 ::

Ricky Garni ::	How to Write Letters About God, pt. 1
	Yoo Hoo!
Larry O. Dean ::	The Sound Effects Bible
Nicelle Davis & Cheryl Gross ::	The Post-Partum Sideshow—or—What Do I Know About Being A Freak?
Tammy Ho Lai-Ming ::	You Don't Know Me
E.E. King ::	The Case of Dr. Dalton Plastic Surgeon
Dodie Bellamy ::	from “Cultured”
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz ::	List of Things You Have to Do
	The Happy Fun of Love
Stacey Wilson ::	Photographs of two found poems
Claudia Lamar ::	Ouija Board Transcripts
	excerpts
Claudia Lamar & Elizabeth Leavitt ::	fortunes + dibuixos
Caitlin Roper ::	Ransom Note Poem #5
Molly Gaudry ::	Die With Me When I Die
Travis Macdonald ::	Chapter Four from “The Story”

Homage to the Strange Spirits

Clarice Lispector ::

from The Passion According to G.H.