THE UNGRATEFUL IMMIGRANT

THE UNGRATEFUL IMMIGRANT

THE UNGRATEFUL IMMIGRANT

                   
If you are looking for one
Don’t look further for he is here
Writing the poem about the hows and the whys and the nos

You expect me to be integrated into the mainstream
I don’t care although I become a citizen
Not to strengthen your national identity as you like to think

But in order to travel more freely in the rest of the world
You expect me to speak English and write English
Which I can do but not so that you think I am English

But to do just what I am doing here
Writing poems that do not sit comfortably with your
Another day another dollar mentality and nationality

You think that because I came to and live in Australia
I should be grateful for the rest of my life
But you don’t know that I already regret that I’ve made an irreversible mistake

And you have made a mistake, too, I think
Because years ago you promoted Australia in our country so aggressively
Why not be honest and say: We don’t fucking want you Asians, PERIOD!

And you know what I think you should do to make me grateful?
Strip me of my citizenship and send me back to China in forced repatriation
Like you have done to so many of them

You think I am serious?
Of course I am not
What do you reckon?