An Interactive Poem

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Take a gamble and immigrate. Place your bet on the Pak Ah Pu lottery card. Click on images to reveal poems, oral histories and short videos. To read the full poetic text, click the book in the corner. Keep your sound on. The site can be explored in any order and for any length of time. 

High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese

He, his eyes sparkle, brown finger with long slim nail points to the green spot eight-spot

He laughs and his eyes glitter, water. 

and he smiles gold teeth as he takes his  lottery book out of an overcoat pocket

and slaps the worn pages on the cafe counter.