I’m not going to force your name–– Mother → Mommy → Eomoni → 어머니 → Eomma →  엄마–– because I never called you that. I never called you anything. For all your shifts    you were the same, twisting every verb into –ing (I am telling you, I am not saying) when it already happened.…

To diagnose someone means  they’re already sick. We need more time, I tell my investors––Kissinger and the other men. It can only happen in blood. I don’t give stories or specificities. Silicon Valley means you create the outline and let them fill you in. All I do is put on a low voice, Steve  Jobs…

The sidewalk outside is wet. So is my swing hanging from the orange tree branches, and my pink boots by the door that hurt.  I like to draw the same picture over and over, a different bedroom from mine scratched out   in blue pen. At night I turn into branches and leaves and things…