What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?
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Yes,
So here it is,
I write in english
For this quiz.
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I’ll share it with y’all
感 謝
It’s what close folk call,
lil ol’ me.
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Pa gave it to me,
When I was young,
I’m older now,
a foreign tongue 👅
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Name words rendered, in English framed
Anglicised word just two initials.
D J C P is what I’m named,
Onomatopoeically fissile.
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Can this jumbled name explain,
Some thc personality traits.
F’rinstance why is he sometimes a pain
Bearing burden of this weight.
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Mix of Anglo and of Sino,
Kinda like t×@&ps hated rinos.
His looks appear Chinese to thee,
Tho’ western intellectually.
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I wonder, not as Wordsworth said,
Poetically father’s dead.
If he foreknew my cerebral struggle,
Namewrapping in protective bubble.
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thc eschews a translation of Cantonese meaning of name in the interests of preserving remaining shreds of his dignity. This is NOT a trigger warning.
The Hobart Chinaman 