Duality
by Eunice Chae
two things
conflicting in beautiful harmony
diminished, 13s, stevie morris chords
is i.
walk up to the mirror
or just a quick hair flip into a glance
i’m caught by surprise
My God, I’m asian
For some reason, I thought, I expected to see a
white girl
Or a nothing face, magic dough doll
I’m Korean and I’m asian and I’m white…
oops, I mean American
Born and raised, carried to the Korean baptist
church via belly
lost my parents’ native tongue
the foreign me to the motherland and ..this
place,
my homeland
America
They say kimchi is stinky
But hey, it saved us from SARS
And those caucAsian boys singing ching chong
in this liberal place the silicon valley south bay
california SUNNYVALE in a neighborhood
where there is more than a few families who
have ancestry from what the west sees as the
east a town in which the asian demographic is
at 40.9% i see on Wikipedia it’s more on the
census site guess those boys were wrong, left
I mean we all can be ignorant make mistakes
yeah?
(BREATHE)
I’ve got to let go
I’m not nearly Korean enough
But I’m not white… so i ain’t no miguksaram,
rite?
dilemma like mixed children? that shit must be
tough
I change preferences to cultures when I feel like
it
like how I write my poetry
It’s a blend, jamba juicin
and i am living
as a person in this world
lots of regrets, I wouldn’t change nothing
not the trinity, but
two in one.
think what you will
ima keep writing about
Me
Identity and
Shit.
by Eunice Chae
two things
conflicting in beautiful harmony
diminished, 13s, stevie morris chords
is i.
walk up to the mirror
or just a quick hair flip into a glance
i’m caught by surprise
My God, I’m asian
For some reason, I thought, I expected to see a
white girl
Or a nothing face, magic dough doll
I’m Korean and I’m asian and I’m white…
oops, I mean American
Born and raised, carried to the Korean baptist
church via belly
lost my parents’ native tongue
the foreign me to the motherland and ..this
place,
my homeland
America
They say kimchi is stinky
But hey, it saved us from SARS
And those caucAsian boys singing ching chong
in this liberal place the silicon valley south bay
california SUNNYVALE in a neighborhood
where there is more than a few families who
have ancestry from what the west sees as the
east a town in which the asian demographic is
at 40.9% i see on Wikipedia it’s more on the
census site guess those boys were wrong, left
I mean we all can be ignorant make mistakes
yeah?
(BREATHE)
I’ve got to let go
I’m not nearly Korean enough
But I’m not white… so i ain’t no miguksaram,
rite?
dilemma like mixed children? that shit must be
tough
I change preferences to cultures when I feel like
it
like how I write my poetry
It’s a blend, jamba juicin
and i am living
as a person in this world
lots of regrets, I wouldn’t change nothing
not the trinity, but
two in one.
think what you will
ima keep writing about
Me
Identity and
Shit.