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Lorraine Ming Tong

She preferred to be known as Ming. She was a very talented artist, wrote poetry, did drawings, and was involved in community theater.

Raining Vocabularies

I step across reason
          where there is no other side

Elastic emotions are pulling war
          internal fires sweat ashes
          the flame breaks loose

I could be a star
          my galaxy is spread and
          ready to climb inside of me

But how can I fall
          when it is raining vocabularies
          and my umbrella refuses to open me

There is no comedy.  Only death laughs. 
          Life lingers like fingers ring the hells of
          being pressed into one flat screw.

Turn the turn
          and page your own way out
          into my mind. 

My kind of people are hard to find.

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