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FURTHER READING
Poems by Frances Chung
Page 65 / Riding the subway is an adventure
the great american yellow poem
Untitled [Sitting across from me on the bus a Chinese]
Poems about Luck
Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs?
by Rachel Zucker
Luck is not chance (1350)
by Emily Dickinson
Lucky
by Tony Hoagland
Near misses
by Laura Kasischke
The Conditional
by Ada Limón
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Page 22 / oh lucky me

 
by Frances Chung

oh lucky me
I am of some use
I am of some inspiration
to the two men 
across the lunchcounter
I remind them of the
last Chinese restaurant
they took their family to
did you know that
Chinese food was delicious?






From Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple by Frances Chung, published by Wesleyan University Press. Copyright © 2000 by the estate of Frances Chung. Reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press. All rights reserved.
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