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you know how
sometimes
dey call
da kine japanee
and pake guys
who try fo'
ak haole
de call 'em
bananas
cuz da eenside
stay white
butda outside
still stay yallow
wahl
i was tinking
i guess
us hapa keeds
is
rotten bananas
cuz
stay brown eenside
an
get frakles
on top da skeen
1990, D. Leilehua Yuen
1991, Poetry by Women, University of Hawai`i at Hilo
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