If hating the both of you is a sin, I’m already in hell. Been living in hell since the day you came with Kit in your stomach and me in the backs of your ***** Vietnamese minds.
First, you think gay people are nasty, *****—wrong. Second, you saw that Facebook photo of me at the pride parade and now you think that I’m gay, that I’m nasty, *****, wrong.
And third, you showed him that picture and now he doesn’t even want to call me his son.
I’m not sure of what I am, but I am sure of one thing— that I don’t want to be your son if it means living up to your standards, beliefs, misconceptions and predispositions that are as ugly and low as the Communist oppression you think you left behind.
I only live up to America.
Toss my number on the stovetop and burn it— Burn it like a ******. Burn it like Chinese incense. Burn it like your millionth cigarette bud.
**I’ll burn like the Fourth of July.
Originally a monologue I wrote for my Theatre class at Berkeley. Ta da, it's now a poem!