A Nail the Evening Hangs On
By Monica Sok
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A Nail the Evening Hangs On - Monica Sok
I
Ask the Locals
Nobody knows: How those so-called revolutionaries
who wanted so-called Year Zero so bad,
turned into mosquitoes. I mean, mosquitoes, right?
Because not butterflies or moths rolling
in the mass graves—we all know the moths are children
who didn’t make it past five. My theory is those creeps
suck the blood of their victims to forget
with their bare hands or with other kinds of hands,
the kinds with teeth. They forgot. Don’t forget: If you
scratch your arms like that, a huge welt will appear—
a rash, and those mosquitoes will keep coming.
You heard it from me. Don’t scratch their real names.
Toothpaste over that bump won’t soothe you,
not this one. I’ll tell you something personal: Every time
I hear their real names, I itch my skin. I itch my own name
too. Mosquitoes. Call them mosquitoes. This kind keeps going
like that mosquito’s straw on your calf keeps sucking.
This is when I tell you: Don’t bend.
Slap.
Americans Dancing in the Heart of Darkness
It’s the Water Festival, the city is a crowd. My skin full of sun
like so many country people who have come to Phnom Penh.
The Americans hate me and I hate them,
but they’re the only students with me and maybe I’m American too.
When I return to my windowless room at the Golden Gate Hotel,
I order fresh young coconut, a club sandwich, and French fries.
A woman with a bruised face and a silver tray walks up seven floors,
knocks on my door. The exchange students order room service too,
and the same woman walks the flights of stairs nine more times.
Fireworks crackle and I think, I’ll be back to this same festival with my family.
In the morning, thirty missed calls. There has been a human stampede
on the bridge to Koh Pich—347 reported dead, 755 injured.
Shoes litter the river. The exchange program advises us to stay away
from Diamond Island. The prime minister’s remarks: This is the worst thing
to happen since the Khmer Rouge. The Americans agree.
I grow quiet in my windowless room. I step outside for air.
The city, a crowd disappearing. The crowd, evacuated to the provinces.
Cambodia, a perpetual stampede.
School canceled at the university——a funerary ceremony instead.
Do the