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winter
(excerpt)
On the picket line we circle breath
we make track marks in the snow
And I learn more and more of her language
and protest.
Booi Got is boycott
Gee Chi is support
My Chinese is a hot pot of Marxist ideology
worker rhythms and rants
peppered with practicalities like, “Where is the bathroom?”
Mistaking the intonation for “Take this” for this “whiteness”
confusing “chicken” and “eat” for “explanation.”
Explanation.
You gave me more excuses than I asked for so
I shut the door on explanations.
