Yellow, a color you hate:
When I am drinking my coffee at Starbucks,
You yell "slanted eyes, go back to your country!"
When I am walking on the street
You throw me to the ground and fatally kick my head
When I am on my way to get groceries”
You punch my head and crack my eyes
When I am heading to work
You use a box cutter to slash across my face
When I am taking my dog to the park
You stab me and cause me critical injury
When I am getting into the subway station
You push me down the stairs same spot twice
When I am waiting for the train
You push me down to the track in front of my little child
When I am getting into the subway car
You set fire to my backpack and burn my hair
When I am sitting in the subway car
You punch my head thirty times and choke me till I fall into a coma—and die in the ICU
When I am strolling in my neighborhood
You call me chink and stab me in the back
When I am talking to my friends at the street corner
You drive by and shoot me in the chest, with racial slur
When I am waiting for my train at Penn Station
You yell racial slurs and threaten to kill me
When I am struggling with my dying small business
You come in to assault my customers with hate remarks
When I wait for a cab after late work
You make a racial curse and stab me in the back, many times
When I am getting across the road,
You drive fast to hit me and others on the street
When I am heading to my working place,
You stabbed me in my chest with a racial slur
When I am serving a customer in my convenient store,
You walk in to fight me and stab me in my chest and my neck
When I am driving home,
You drag me out and run off with my baby in the car
(…hate crime continues without border…)
(…hate crime continues without border…)
(…hate crime continues without border…)
You feel entitled to insult, assault and kill me in the open public
Just because I have a “yellow” face
While I am an ordinary citizen doing an ordinary job,
You are the virus permeating the yellow hate
In wounded New York City!
Siu P
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