Poem For You
(World AIDS Day ‘20)
Nancy Chong is an artist, DJ, & advocate for folks living with HIV/AIDS, working as the Development Associate for Visual AIDS. In October of 2020 I began a “spontaneous text-art” project in a notepad which has since evolved into Poem For You. For the occasion of World AIDS Day, Dec. 1st 2020, Nancy reached out to me about creating a collaborative mix of downtempo lounge & world jazz music interspersed with my readings from the project. The hour-long mix first streamed live at Lower Grand Radio, where Nancy’s monthly show Midori Haze is housed. It has since been archived & you can listen to it via the channel below. Please note that we neither own nor claim to own the rights of the music enlisted for the mix & no profit was accrued on our part in the making.
Poem for You
is me trying to be
honest & not think
too much about it—
all these sticky little
emotions I keep
quiet about for fear of
feeling the feeling like
maybe I feel too much
& if that’s the case
oh well so be it but
maybe you’ll feel w
me too
xx C