Pledge of Allegiance by E.J. Koh
“When my mother tells me, under allegiance: // Be happy! When you smile happiness is chase you — / her language is a hand she lays on my head.” — E.J. Koh
Ugly=Nation by Don Mee Choi
“Beauty=Nation is possible. Ugly=Nation eventually grew up to be somewhat beautiful, but that was only from the perspective of its own kind” — Don Mee Choi