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Mum always told me, "많이 먹어"
Which means, "Eat Well, Son."
Dad always told me, "우유 마서"
Which means, "Drink Milk, Son"
You see, my family's short
Not in spirit, but in body.

Like, Honey Nut Cheerios,
A little small,
Lightly golden,
And surrounded by White.

Suburb to suburb,
School to school,
My surroundings changed like the seasons
But the pale consistency always stayed the same.

I grew up feeling like
Hard-boiled egg yolk,
That dry yellow bit
Surrounded by the much better White part

I grew up eating rice
And it always tasted bitter,
I grew up smelling fish
That my classmates found weird,
I grew up watching baseball, football
Anything the others liked

I grew up hearing
"Chink, Gook, Squinting Eyes, Yellow Boy",
I grew up wanting white
And always falling short.
I grew up hating milk.

It was a cold white lie.

They said, "you are what you eat"
And I really believed them.
I drank milk everyday, every meal, every snack,
I poured my dreams in that cereal.

In those Honey Nut Cheerios.

In that promise of bigger and better
Like the White boys around me,
I hid from the sun to not get more yellow.
I wore Hollister and Ambercrombie to cover my skin,

I bleached my own heritage
Called my own country stupid
Dubbed my own language ugly
And spoke to my parents, in just English.

I hoped to drown in this colour.

Sink down to my head
So the status and privilege
Would all seep through the cracks of my fibres
And bring rain to this desert,
But I choked on this milk.

It smothered my character.

Softened my soul like
Forgotten old cheerios
And I came out weaker than before,
Just a brittle husk
With nothing left to fill.

Because, after all,
Nobody Likes Soggy Cereal.


-Arpi Park

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/rɪˈmɔːs/
Learn to pronounce
noun
Deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed.
"They were filled with remorse and shame"
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