I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant..
I had a system, and the system worked..
I'm from such an old family, it's been condemned..
We want to mentally be young, even if physically we're not..
The asp doth on his feeder feed..
For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me..
We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others..
I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control..
Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain..
It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate..
And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood..
I have always known a thing before it happens..
In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you..
And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction..