I dreamt last night, my mind arrested.
In my right was a scalpel,
My left held my scalp.
I wore O.R. scrubs my parents scrubbed in their laundromat.
My sister was a prostitute,
Her pimp was John Lennon.
And all my life they called me doctor, banker, lawyer.

I woke up this morning,
My throat parched and skin leprous and flaky.
A red line stretched across my head,
Bruised from cuff marks.

I am the model minority.
I am John and Jane Kim,
I am the model minority.
I am the child of Jehovah,
I am the model minority.
I am the minor in minority,
The opposite of major,
I am the model minority.
I am the slave of Milton S. Eisenhower,
The president of Johns Hopkins University,
The president of War Relocation Authority,
The gestapo of Japanese internment camps,
I am the model minority.