Fake

“I got you this Piaget in China.
It looks real.”
Then you left for another man,
who wore a real one.
Its fake arm goes on
ticking as usual, not knowing
my concept of time has changed –
A devoted tourbillon
counting down the end of my world.

Nicholas Y.B. Wong lectures film studies and contemporary literatures in English at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. His academic articles have appeared in Asian Cinema and two Australian publications concerning media studies and education, namely Screen Education and Metro Magazine. He is also a creative writer based in Hong Kong. His poems and short stories are featured in Asia Writes, Taj Mahal Review, 6S: The Green Bike Stories, Cha, Qarrtsiluni, Yuan Yang, Asian Pacific Writers’ Network, The Other Voice Poetry Project, Poetry Sky and Fifty-fifty: New Hong Kong Writing, edited by Xu Xi (2007, Haven Books). His poem “Lives” has been shortlisted in 2009 Chroma International Queer Writing Competition. He is currently an MFA Candidate at the City University of Hong Kong. Visit him at http://nicholasybwong.weebly.com.