“That’s me in the picture. I’m the diversity.” ~ Morgan Parker
Everyone just loves
those beaches of white
sand, your skin the color
of ripe mangos flecked with
the sun’s old gold— And
everyone says Your people
have such admirable industry!
I’m always amazed at how much
you can do with so little!
By the way there are a few
misplaced commas in your
essay. Did you actually
write it all yourself?
Someday you must explain
to me how a writer from
your country can have
not one or two but four
national awards
to his name. Are you
all right, my co-workers ask
the day after Typhoon Haiyan,
lowered voices tiptoeing
around my cubicle. How are
your family? It must break
your heart. It does, it always
does, though I may not be
personally implicated.
In response to an entry from the Morning Porch.
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