Saturday, June 18, 2011
Day 291
9:42 pm
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(tanka) for a Father’s Day
—
it’s no big deal
just another holiday
but it would be nice
you could hear me sing Elvis
or smile at some dumb card
—
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Or another for F Day
—
Like each email announcement
of some stupid sale doesn’t
come to freeze my wrists
Like I don’t dole out
automatic sideways glances,
aloof and nonchalant,
as I quickly delete them all
Like I don’t tell myself
it’s just another day
It’s not
like
I can’t block it out
I don’t want
to
have to
I don’t even
want
to
try
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tkk
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About traciakemi
traci akemi kato-kiriyama - inter/multi-disciplinary theatre/performance artist, arts educator, cultural worker, community organizer. Tuesday Night Project; theatre, performance, writing, and teaching projects with many organizations and artists including: zero 3; Edge of The World for Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia and the National Asian American Theatre Festival in New York; "PULL" with Kennedy Kabasares in San Francisco; Nobuko Miyamoto and Great Leap Collaboratory I; TeAda; NCRR; Oymun's 11.
Playwright for "Chasing Dad - a performance of a reading about a play i'm writing" presented by Inside the Ford for the Ford's Summer Playwright series.
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