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    Vietnam

    Twenty years ago when I moved to California

    I went to Wells Fargo to open a bank account

    The teller was young, beautiful... Vietnamese

     

    My first thought was

    "You know, I might have fucked your mama"

     

    My second thought was

    "You know, I might have killed your mama"

     

    I took my receipt

    Went outside

    And threw up on the sidewalk

     

    And you wonder why I have trouble sleeping?

    You wonder why I broke the lamp and punched a hole in the wall?

    You wonder why road rage makes me feel so good?

     

    My body came back but not my mind

    I will always be ten thousand miles away

     

     

    Poem / 2008

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