CHELSIE COATES
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A chronological spewage of my thoughts and feelings into poetry and writing.
Usually, my text will accompany work in the form of print, sculpture, sound or performance. All of these are vessels for a completely personal insight to my own experiences growing up and now as an adult. 
Feelings of displacement and anecdotal stories are the basis of my writing and a few specific stories outlined in "I am Not Chinese Enough to Actually be Chinese" are memories I recall often as dark moments in my life.​

rice grains

3/9/2020

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rice grains are like sand 


if you let them slip through your

h  a  n  d  s



the panic you feel when you remember 


that mum asked you to cook the rice 


and you hear the car pull in the drive.


just like when you forget to defrost the

m  e  a  t  . 



quickly boil some water.


not quite two cups for each cup of

l o n g g r a i n .
b a s m a t i . 
j a s m i n e .








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