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10. they say New Yorkers are rude

7/14/2017

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they say New Yorkers are rude
i say
we all have places to go and
you're probably just in the way. yet,
​i'm a tourist in a country where 
people actually look like me
they scold me in Chinese
when i take the wrong bullet train
seat and i have an American retort ready
but can't properly wrap my tongue
around the meaning
so i give up and tug my baggage away
unable to fight in one language,
unable to communicate in another
roll your eyes at me
jostle my bag none too gently
​when i stray too near 
here, i'm just another inconvenience
who just doesn't get it
wedging my body between 
closing subway doors
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      • National Poetry Writing Month - 2019
      • National Poetry Writing Month - 2018
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      • National Poetry Writing Month - 2017
      • Kentucky Collection
      • National Poetry Writing Month - 2016
    • Spoken Word
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