drunken chicken

fishy, frozen, rigid,

flavorless chicken as

the only option

to make this long-time missed drunken chicken

for my professor’s Chinese New Year's Eve party

Boiled, cleaned, cooled,

squeezed into a container,

using a whole bottle of yellow wine,

and return to the refrigerator,

for another marinated night

at the party

she drinks various things

two red, three white, bottles of beer, mugs of iced vodka, pre-made cocktails

she seems drunk

telling me, this drunken chicken

tastes totally wrong to her memory

i know this without getting drunk

but later we all become drunk

including the chicken

for another new year

away