We joked about it
SAT forms and College Applications
What about all the Hapa kids?
The "Other" bubble seemed more real

Wisconsin?!!  Why Wisconsin?
UW-Madison: 40,000+
7.7% minority
<5% Asian
And so cold

But who cares?
"Hawaii people are color bind"
"Its all a matter of Attitude"
"Believe in yourself….."

The Asian Bar
The Haole party
The Black crowd

The eyes of an entire
Wisconsin high school wrestling team
Watching me

Americanized Japanese
Ban-zai
Care-e-O-key
Ka-ra-de
Mr. Kain-Shiro
Asian-American culture
American-Asian culture

You look Oriental
You look Asian
You look Japanese
Why don't you know your mother language?

A hundred thousand years 
Of hardship struggles onto my shoulders
My exotic Asian heritage
Not American
Not mine

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