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If you're too busy to watch the whole thing or your megabyte wouldn't let you ..I'm glad to do the honors To what he said...

Well my Dad really..he's a quiet man
You know
He appreciates the silence
And whenever I speak to him in English
He always returns the foreign in favor
So for him , speaking Japanese
Is like a walk in the park
I imagine speaking English
Is like a barb wire fence

So my father is a chef
He'll add extra syllable to his words
Like seasoning
Something that would taste better in his mouth
If i would complain about hunger
He would tell me to
Go get the cheese burger (mumbles Japanese )

My fathers accent could be an asshole
Because my fathers accent ain't smooth
Like my birth certificate
It's the rough edges around my family's grave
It's the crease that creates the wing on a paper crane
You see my fathers accent
is a hole in a Japanese internment camp fence
It's an escape route to his culture.
His accent is thick n his words stick together like a vinegar rise on his walking hands
He spent more time cooking for people than working on his speech
Because he knew standard English
Wasn't going to feed his children
The recipe is a way of talking to Americans
It's how people understand what his heart is trying to say

You see the accent is a mark of an immigrant
It's a ruler with mile long increments that measures the rule from home
So maybe Asians are known to be good at maths
Cos that's the only homework our parents could help us with
Or maybe I'm just being defensive
Cos I'm afraid that my rusty Japanese
Is a broken chain link that cant hold my lineage together

I'm afraid of passing down my lack of language
To my children
And their grandpa's accent would sound
More foreigner than family
I'm selfish writing poems n poems about Japan
When my name is the only word I know how to write in Japanese .

Video by Slamfind feat. G Yamazawa
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