Beautiful poetry

[floralcloud]

In Response to Executive Order 9066: All Americans of Japanese Descent Must Report to Relocation Centers

by Dwight Okita

Dear Sirs:
Of course I'll come. I've packed my galoshes
and three packets of tomato seeds. Denise calls them
love apples. My father says where we're going
they won't grow.

I am a fourteen-year-old girl with bad spelling
and a messy room

Comments

[pauvre_lola]

Such a beautiful poem, thank you for sharing <3.

[floralcloud]

You are very welcome. This poem choked me up on the inside as I can relate to it growing up a Chinese girl in America.

[floralcloud]

*as a Chinese girl