Excerpts from
A _ D R A G _ Q U E E N _ N A M E D _ P I P I
And Other Poems: Fagogo ma Solo
By Dan Taulapapa McMullin $9
Design by James Nakamura
from "A Ghost"
In Lagituavalu a ghost roamed the land,
It was a crying ghost and it lived in the trees.
People everywhere talked about the crying ghost and what a nuisance it was becoming.
They petitioned the Governor to do something about it.
Send it away on priority mail, or maybe express mail post haste.
Dan Taulapapa McMullin is a Samoan American writer, filmmaker and painter. He lives in California and Samoa and is working on a film The Shark in the Woods. His work has earned many awards, including the 2002 Rainbow Award for Best Short at the Honolulu Gay & Lesbian Film Festival for Sinalela
review by Craig Perez on Slope #24 (winter 2007)
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