"We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire."

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Source : Janice Mirikitani (1995). “We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems”, Ten Speed Press

Janice Mirikitani

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