What Are You? A Personal Poetry Reading

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What Are You? A Personal Poetry Reading

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2013-10-18

Gerry Yokota, Professor
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

My reading of the 1971 poem by Nobuko JoAnne Miyamoto

when I was young
kids used to ask me
what are you?
I’d tell them
what my mom told me
I’m an American
Chin Chin Chinaman
you’re a Jap!
flashing hot inside
I’d go home
my mom would say
don’t worry
he who walks alone
walks faster…

Read the entire poem here.

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