SHORTLISTED, EDINBURGH FESTIVAL COMPETITION, 2020
With tearful eyes, Asako watches the flames burst through broken panes, lost as to why the rioters would cast their destructive anger upon her tiny Japanese pastry shop. Lost as to how any of this relates to BLM, the real message that needs to be delivered.
Lost as to what she’ll do now.
She turns away, only then remembering how her great-grandparents lost everything as they were herded to the internment camp. How lost her grandfather seemed returning from the Vietnam War, only to be spat upon.
They rose from their ashes. So will she.
But somewhere far from Seattle.
Lost as to what she’ll do now.
She turns away, only then remembering how her great-grandparents lost everything as they were herded to the internment camp. How lost her grandfather seemed returning from the Vietnam War, only to be spat upon.
They rose from their ashes. So will she.
But somewhere far from Seattle.
