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
Copyright Credit: 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)