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Saturday, November 24, 2012

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Man-with-18-children-born-through-penis--Camden








Paul Matthews Young outside train station that connects Camden with Philadelphia. On a plate glass window, he has taped his New Jersey ID, social security card and about eight sheets of paper showing his "Moneterial Earning Assessment." It wasn't clear what he was trying to convey, to whom, or if it was some kind of protest. When he told me had 18 children, I asked, "With how many women?"

"None."

"What do you mean none?!"

"I had them by myself."

"Fuck you, man, you'll pulling my leg! You're a comedian. What the hell are you talking about?!"

He said his 18 children were born microscopic from the tip of his dick. The doctors at Cooper Hospital had something to do with this, but I couldn't get him to explain fully the procedure beyond the fact that Paul had to jerk off beaucoup times. He said the last woman he was with had three kids of her own, so there were 21 children in the household altogether. His oldest is now 35.




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I was born in Vietnam in 1963, came to the U.S. in 1975, and have also lived in Italy and England. I'm the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (2000) and Blood and Soap (2004), five books of poems, All Around What Empties Out (2003), American Tatts (2005), Borderless Bodies (2006), Jam Alerts (2007) and Some Kind of Cheese Orgy (2009), and a novel, Love Like Hate (2010). My work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, 2004, 2007 and Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, among many other places. I'm also the editor of the anthologies Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (1996) and Three Vietnamese Poets (2001), and translator of Night, Fish and Charlie Parker, the poetry of Phan Nhien Hao (2006). Blood and Soap was chosen by the Village Voice as one of the best books of 2004. My poems, stories and political writing have been translated into Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Icelandic and Finnish, and I've been invited to read my works in London, Cambridge, Brighton, Paris, Berlin, Reykjavik, Toronto and all over the U.S. I've also published widely in Vietnamese.