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Proof 5: Elvis Yip Kin Bon, If You Miss Home (2016, single-channel video)

 

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This is your cultural capital speaking.

Shrouded in mosaics, timed

and spent by a video, what will

 

you do? Think, I will, the future

of my son. Your melancholy

is overbooked. We ask you to focus.

 

To practice: … bridge is falling down.

Downed ownership: What

will you do if you miss your family?

 

I will keep myself busy. Focus,

adjusted, falling down. But self:

Ah –– This is cultural

 

capital speaking. Your self

is sublingual. Kalau tidak bobo:

If you are not sleeping, odd

 

your self out. Self in English only,

such as: wood and clay

will wash away. Such as R.I.P.

 

for self storage. Ah, I will hard work,

boy bared. It is human interest

to have verbs come first:

 

done work, bear this. Ah ––.

Diaspora, prolific in bawling.

Infirm. Of it we don’t speak

 

much here. Though sere,

severed, focus. Even iron bars

will bend and break. What will

 

you do if you break? Photos,

wrinkles, blender. Remember,

no one expects shoes

 

to clean themselves. Ah ––.

Self: neither an ad

nor a calling. To box it, we ask

 

you, what is worse than falling:

a floor that cants and can’t

refuse what falls.

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