Where do you come from,
they often ask me,
unable to place my ethnicity;
Thailand? Myanmar? Laos? The Philippines?
My eyes gleam
so merrily when I offer no answer that seems
fair to me, but which everyone else somehow finds so fascinating:
what is a jenti Kristang, and how is it so terrifying
to me that nobody seems in the slightest bit perturbed by me
or my community, when actually
you know ah, these Serani;
they can sometimes be so piping hot,
so absolutely fiery.
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