Dang You Then a Dang
By Hoa Nguyen
And trip me up
a startled robbed way
Dreamt a burnt stump
for a tongue
Ash-haired girl
Cowbell girl
The white American
Veteran said Children
like you played
in the garbage
(Leftovers)
She said “I left my ease here”
heavy trays trick knee
The trick of the model
minority ( a favored
yet shitty condition )
We rung up the diction-tones
to be proud we were
“I threw you away”
and old skins shed
as a Silver Snake (1941)
Sweet toddler on the
crook of her hip
