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# Two Poems by Yumi Dineen Shiroma
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/two-poems-by-yumi-dineen-shiroma/
- Published: 2018-09-26T11:01:31.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:24:38.000Z
- Description: Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected two poems by Yumi Dineen Shiroma for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
- Author: Wendy Xu
- Tags: Poetry, Hyperallergic Poetry, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-18 14:37 (2018)

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Lari Pittman, “Portrait of a Textile (Cretonne)” (2018), Cel-vinyl, spray enamel on canvas over wood panel, 81 x 70 x 2 inches (© Lari Pittman, image courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles)

## Markov Sonnet #2

That’s beautiful like ther lives are beautiful.  
“Tripping out on her too the sun was so  
tooooootally feminine). And is perfectly  
genderstood, but they glistened in their lives  
and stories’ meant tense i.e. I’m beautiful out

so will it hold all clean and hold its form?  
When we’ve commentioned I say I can’t  
this world this form.” It’s Wednesday. He drew back.  
May be gentle? Relationist? Weak  
weak tea? I baffle him.

Make it 11 for the light, talked  
about M years later she goes. I’ll go.  
Life is like any or quite it was Sunday.  
They glistened in their artistic model of freedom.

## Markov Sonnet #4

Neverything out of cognity she said.  
That’s beautiful like ther lives are beautiful.  
I feel like I’ll be they and them and then  
using, hefting. Could if they’re charismation  
and crackets, ordered in asphalt—

I want to be beautiful around me  
dependent can’t change from the different  
protégés and moods. I’m so boredom  
other I know Jesus Chris Kraus Marie  
is it why you aren’t going to wait for form?

Blissed on a single truth and passed out with  
anythink by this blur of kiss me like theory  
and swallow if you’re out of day, tomorrow  
blue with inheritance blue with desire.

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Yumi Dineen Shiroma is a PhD student in English at Rutgers University, where she studies the theory and history of the novel. Her work has appeared in *BOMB* and *Peach Magazine* and is forthcoming in *Nat*. *Brut*. Her chaplet, *A Novel Depicting “the” “Asian” “American” “Experience,”* will be published by Belladonna\* this fall. You can find her on Twitter at [@ydshiroma](https://twitter.com/ydshiroma?ref=hyperallergic.com).

Note: These poems, composed of text from my college diaries, run through a Markov chain generator, which probabilistically generates “sentences” based on what words tend to follow other words in the input text. The result is a text that is partially human-authored and partially machine-generated.