Teachers use to say
Your behavior is just like your last name
Unforgettable.
In school, we learned more about other people's names rather than the ones closer to my own
As if Matam, Yamazawa, and Acevedo were so much harder to say than
Tchaikovsky, Michael Angelo, Eisenhower, like last names made upon white
Stripping the flesh of those trying to conquer the meanings of their mouths
See my parents named me George but honestly I always hated the name George.
It reminds me of some old dead white guy
Being a young alive Asian boy, it was hard for me to make a connection
I realized that my first name didn't match my background before I knew how to spell assimilation
I always wanted a name that set the bar high
That some pull out of mouths somersaulting in a room to split the air
A name like Socie or Anakaona
