Knots

Knot

You are-r not

Communist history capitalism bought



Writ-ten in textbooks

(The war in, knot

on Vietnam)



St-rings, vibrating things

Potential life stories: lived-lost-forgot



Ties

East-r meets west-r

American? - Asian?

Co-lon-ial-lism, WARS, strapped to my chest

Victoria's Secret BOMBshell

(I'm doing my best)

Media beckons you to be seen

And they smear yellowface onto the screens



Con ai! I cry

Unsure of what’s passed

Why is it only feelings of knots that last?

Why do we go on racing past? Our past?

Westminster still holds on to their past

Population 30 thousand, but no representation to cast

Quick schemes in politics not meant to last

Vietnam in technicolor there

You say go home

- and I say where?



Les Miserables didn't include Indochine

And I? I feel like a machine

Tempered by boxes, are you yellow or seen?

Knots of all colors, shading my dreams.

Choking on knots systemic or not

Between two worlds I'm tied like a knot

I am and I'm not.

But don't feel so bad

(Hear me. Quote me. Get it right)

It's not quite that bad

Radicalism and racism

Better than what they had

(Thank you mom and dad)



The act of war has been done

(Being recluse cannot hurt me)

The war has been won

(Mental abuse cannot hurt me)



I’m not confused

(See me. Touch me.)

Our bodies only bruised, mind’s now bemused.

All the battles we’ve fought

Constant tangles in thoughts,

who am I, who are we?

Two worlds one convoluted body

Caught.