By Mary Jean Chan
post-colony is a state of mind
it is reaching deep into the past
as you sit on a BA flight moving
across a genteel British landscape
and History not reaching back
neo-colony is a state of being
it is the illusion of pure freedom
until it is stripped back ever so
softly like a hospital curtain
the more you successfully
assimilate the more you see
the terms and conditions feel
the texture of abstract nouns
Equality Diversity Inclusion
MARY JEAN CHAN is a poet, editor and lecturer currently based in Oxford. They are the author of Flèche (Faber, 2019) and co-editor of 100 Queer Poems (Vintage, 2022).
Artwork by Izzy Fergusson
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