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14) Genghis Khan*


       Wolran Kim


 

I’m going to visit a relative who I’ve never associated with

Listening to someone else’s beating heart from a transplant

He had been holding on for twenty-five years

Now he is waiting for the surgery after being convicted of liver cancer

A messenger of the other world sat in front of him

Who looked like he just sat up from a coffin

Like the last reading of sentences right before they’re discarded

A hollow body is speaking

He may have two more years if the surgery is successful

But he knows that it is just his greed

With a bulging belly, he seems like a refugee of a developing country

Lost his appetite, his childish dream

His pale English is too fluent

To be saved as a dead file with an unknown nationality

To leave his old wife, who stammers

We never say this is our last time

Bye, see you again

 

After exactly one week

His news came from the messenger of the other world

But I had trip planned at the time of his funeral

So I’m going to see his dead body

He, who lies like an old doll

Never says anything anymore

The Road to Heaven is only vivid through his halfway-gaping mouth

His golden glasses on his hollow eyes only sparkle

The only present in the past

Blonde messengers of the dead world in black suits

Appear and take him away, like priests

The stammering old wife says his last words were

“I love you,” and she doesn’t stammer any more

 

People in black go to the restaurant in front of the cemetery

And then, they discuss seriously, the cost of the funeral and grave

I go to Catalina Island

It offers a free boat for birthday people

I step on the gas for ten hours to eat Genghis Khan in Korea town

 

Because I do not know

About a life that disappeared from the fingertip to infinity

Because I do not know

About a person who passed under my eyes to eternity

Because I already forgot

About him, who left to live the time that never came

 

*Genghis Khan: A menu in Korean restaurants, consisting of raw meat and fresh vegetables cooked in a boiling beef broth at the table.

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