poem of the day 07.19.13

and he says (part two)

and he says

you know the chinese

are taking over everything, right?

they basically own nicaragua

they love them there

the nicaraguans are letting the chinese

build a canal

so no one has to use ours anymore

and i say nothing

africa loves the chinese too

you know why don’t you?

diamonds, i guess

and he says

ivory

the chinese can’t get enough of that shit

and i say

right, right, all of the dead elephants

the chinese are killing them

or else they’re paying someone to

and he says

look around your country

the chinese are taking over america too

crowding our private schools

and our good universities

we have good universities in america? i say

and he says

what are you nuts?

a communist?

america has the best education system in the world

and the chinese are taking it over

because they want to rule the world

and i look at my co-worker who is chinese

she’s twenty-one years-old

she lost her dad when she was a kid

her mom just died back in february

she goes to school full-time

and every bit of money that she gets from this job

goes in the pocket of the insomniac grandmother

who keeps her up all night

she’s not trying to rule anything

but just get by like your average american

and he says

pretty soon they’ll be so many of them

that poor white kids will have to marry some chinese

it’ll be like an arranged marriage

everyone will be melted together

and you won’t be able to tell chinese from white

from black from indian from nobody

and i think

i know more chinese people and black people

than i do white people at this point in my life

the only people who’ve ever been cruel to me

were white people

so i don’t care if we all end up blue

with silver antennas

and he says

but look up that thing on nicaragua

some time when you get the chance

use the internet, kid

if you know how

because that’s where i get my information from.