DIE-versity

I been asked to write and read a poem for the Diversity Fair at the end of the month... and why? You guessed it. Who to better complete the beautiful rainbow of diversity than a female Asian (except maybe a one-legged female Asian).  For those who know me well, know that I am the least diverse person.  Whatever I come-up with, it'll be a watered down version of my true feelings.  While in college, I supported race-based affirmative action  because I didn't know better, and because I thought it was the same as racial non-discrimination.  Because people were beginning to understanding what race-based affirmative action really means, the government renames it "diversity" in the 1990's. I'm not trying to change the world in one poem but just want to convey a bit of truth (and keep my job).

7:19 PM - 2 Comments - 8 Kudos - Add Comment

i can’t live in alaska

A car fire
Breaks.
As I wrap my body
Around my daughter's carseat.

I do this
Over
Over
And over
Again in each
Nightmare
testing

i withstand
fire.
heat
war
and the burning of secrets
from my bones.

But it's the cold
I am afraid of
ice
silence
freezing my eyes
Open.

6:06 AM - 7 Comments - 12 Kudos - Add Comment

vote, or not two.

i choose
not to choose
(for
lack of info)

is better than

you choosing
to choose
(with
lack of info)

12:37 AM - 7 Comments - 12 Kudos - Add Comment

building... blood (moon)

Labels
Especially the occupational ones
Are hazardous to
good
Times.

Labels
itching to be asked by
The ones dying to
tell
Theirs.

I'm allergic to labels
Unless it says
Kettle one or patron
Or strip tease.

One thing I learned
About being naked,
There's no labels.
only bearing of

soul.

2:56 PM - 6 Comments - 14 Kudos - Add Comment

anti-what?

she meets the dr.

(back alley)

to rid a swelly belly.

but first,

she pays.

half cash, half unholy.

she turns around

and he takes her

(back alley)

anesthesia

for whats to come.

she met the dr.

(back alley)

to get her life back

somehow.

he left

two lives

in the back alley.

12:26 PM - 4 Comments - 12 Kudos - Add Comment

khamille arabia

she smells of miracle,
peeping thru jungle lashes

(to see I'm still there)

she strengths of stone,
in small fingers and sighs

she won't remember

but know in her gut
(when it is no longer her world)
the moments of miracle
power
love
she imposed on
the world.

7:59 AM - 5 Comments - 10 Kudos - Add Comment

abstract

feelings feelings feelings
are art
on a gallery wall…
waiting for a sucker to buy.
subjectiveness at its best
depending on the angle,
who you ask and
the amount of drinks on hand.
i am improving on
avoiding
(to be human)
I attend less showings.

11:20 AM - 3 Comments - 8 Kudos - Add Comment

fukc~ed

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watching/enjoying  TV...

Me: excuuuuuuuuuuse you. someone's big-head is in the way. AGAIN.

Him: why does  my head always gotta be "BIG"?

(because it is)

Me: someone's "NORMAL"-sized head is in the way. AGAIN.

Him: well, someone's-NORMAL-sized-head will be coming out of your whoo-ha very soon.

(damn-it. check-mate)

4:56 AM - 4 Comments - 12 Kudos - Add Comment

reasoning in

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**to people compelled to tell pregnant women (me) that "blah blah happens for.. blah, blah, blah..."

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everything is infinite

therefore there must be hell-of-a-lot of reasons

unaccounted.

unless there's just [one] a reason

that everthing recycles everytime.

but sometimes

nothing seems to happen

and the hell-of-a-lot of reasons

takes a break from everything.

it is safe to replace

a reason with me

because when

everything happens,

I am around

with or without a reason.

7:38 AM - 3 Comments - 8 Kudos - Add Comment

The salad of my people:

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Fifty-ish lady steps up to the cashier as I stand off to the side, awaiting my order.

Cashier: May I take your order?

Lady: Could I get the Oriental salad?

Cashier stammers: Um, m'am, we don't have an Oriental Salad.

Lady: Yes, you do.

Cashier points to the menu: Here are our salads.

Lady: Oh, yeah, that one, the Asian salad.

5:48 AM - 6 Comments - 14 Kudos - Add Comment