Cover story
Poem from "A
World Between: Poems Stories and Essays by Iranian-Americans"
- a collection of writings by 30 authors and poets edited by Persis M.
Karim and Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami (1999, George Braziller Inc., New York;
352 pages).
I Ain't No American Beauty Rose
By Tara Fatemi
dirty
brown
ugly
weed
I am
responsible
for American
hostages
ten years
I cultivate
courage
to be myself
plant seeds
for pride
in heritage
man cackles
Shave your eyebrows
fuckin'
A-rab!
thick eyebrows
of my mother
grandmother
I want to pluck
all ancestry
his scythed
tongue
bleeds me.
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