Gifted Chinese poet Cu Gheng wrote poetry at an early age
One of the rebellious, Misty Poets who didn’t follow the CCP
Risked their lives writing poems that didn’t align with the party line
Hailed as a great poet writing innovative surrealist verse
Cu Cheng had one major flaw. He was insanely controlling
And physically abusive to Xie Yi, his beautiful, Chinese wife
Though he may have loved her in some crazed, unloving way
He murdered her with an ax and hung himself to death in 1993
Bob Boyd