Independence Day 2010
By Hoa Nguyen
Can be cracked or am that you didn't
consider me or I thought so
recovering in a nap You took the 4th
of July beers
In the movie
she was Asian and playing an Asian
part singing white on white in the white
room
I want to strum
or mask this day
Ask a question
of the large “picture” window
like why and why and also why
to think of the napalmed girl
in the picture
Hoa Nguyen, "Independence Day 2010" from As Long as Trees Last. Copyright © 2012 by Hoa Nguyen. Reprinted by permission of Wave Books and the author.
Source:
As Long as Trees Last
(Wave Books, 2012)
