The Legend by Garrett Hongo

The Legend by Garrett Hongo In memory of Jay Kashiwamura In Chicago, it is snowfalling lightly and a homo has just done his wash for the week. He stairs into the twilight of early evening, carrying a wrinkled obtain bag rich of neatly folded clothes, and, for a moment, enjoys the tone of congresswoman of warm laundry and fold up paper, flannellike against his gloveless hands. Theres a Rembrandt glow on his face, a triangle of orange in the hollow of his cheek as a pass puffiness of sunset blazes the shop classfronts and lit windows of the street. He is Asian, Thai or Vietnamese, and very(prenominal) skinny, dressed as one of the poor in mess up causal agency pants and a plaid mackinaw, grungy and too large. He negotiates the slick of ice on the paving material by his car, opens the Fairlanes back door, leans to patch the laundry in, and turns, for an instant, toward the flurry of ftsteps and cries of pedestrians as a boy--thats all he w as-- backs from the corner package store shooting a pistol, firing it, once, at the dumbfounded man who falls forward, grabbing at his chest. A few sounds make do from his mouth, a babbling no one understands as flexure surround him bewildered at his speech. The noises he makes are energy to them. The boy has gone, lost in the light array of foot traffic dappling the snow with fresh prints.

Tonight, I read astir(predicate) Descartes grand courageousness to doubt everything except his own wonderful existence and I feel so distinct from the maimed man lying on the concrete I am ashamed Let the night sky cover him as he dies. L! et the weaver girl cross the both of heaven and take up his cold hands. Facts about Garrett Hongo * Garrett Hongo was born(p) on May 30, 1951, in Volcano, Hawaii. * He is Japanese American. * Hongo tended to(p) a racially mixed high school in Los Angeles, where he was exposed to urban street life and racial divisions that he would later describe in his poetry. Poetry twine of The Legend * Imagery- He uses...If you want to get a plenteous essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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