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Marilyn Chin

Marilyn Chin was born in Hong Kong in 1955 and raised in Portland, Oregon. She received a BA in Chinese literature from the University of Massachusetts in 1977 and an MFA from the University of Iowa in 1981. Chin’s

Little Box Opens Up

by Marilyn Chin (b. 1955)

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Little Box talks back

With a new set of teeth

And pink gums

A fake nose and a wax mustache

She disguises her voice

To sound like Groucho

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Little Box opens up

And cries to her psychiatrist

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