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Obligatory Techno​-​Orientalism

from Aggressively Ethnically Ambiguous by Rhys Langston

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lyrics

frame 1: close up,
Black behind the ears,
effaced the “I”,
drunk off triple distilled
bottle of white tears.

trailed off and picked up
on a surgically-repaired knee,
reference point: Suburban fantasy
Mr. Miyagi

found who I was projected as
chilling with Edward Said,
finished drafts of post-colonial raps,
playing Cooking Mama on my Wii
at the close of Eid,
figured innovation as a symptom
of postmodern greed

actually well,
devoid of linguistics, subaltern speech,
regaled with economic theory,
singular narrative genes,
trauma supposed only allele, as so to speak,
Schedule One nine-to-five breaths
rise in the east and rise in the yeast

with some
Obligatory Techno-Orientalism

cleared the sample and
adjusted to that 400 meter rhythm,
ran out of time to share my
clickbait anachronisms and
deposited my liberal outrage
in a dingy prison

profit margins scribbled with all those
investor stock options,
excel spreadsheet recurring dreams
with all them groups watching,
esoteric cold sweat mornings after
flip-top macbook hyperlinks to
transracial cookbook chapters

well,
Rachel takes the California role,
doles it out to Kylie Jenner who’s
patenting her own stripper pole

cast in that refashioned remake of that movie,
(what?) Friday,
G-Eazy’s playing Cube’s part
while Felicia’s gone Miley

well, prefer this next digression avoids
addiction to media res,
but I began my story in the middle and
auto-didacted off a ledge

lyrics cliffhang at behest of some of my
racialized appearance,
and I’ve dredged with Mr. Jones,
muckraking trash inside my River Spirit,
yeah.

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from Aggressively Ethnically Ambiguous, released September 1, 2017
Produced by MVNTRA

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