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THANH BUI

​Sad things / I don’t know / who to share with

  • Nobody on Bojack Horseman
          can actually pronounce Nguyễn
          To be sure, I watched a bunch of
          Alison Brie interviews and waited
          to hear her say Diane

  • In the future,
          everywhere
          looks like Tokyo
minus
          its people

  • There is fan art of Olympian
          Chloe Kim on her instagram
          under which a person wrote:
          “looks like julia roberts”

          If your stomach doesn’t
          churn at the sight
          of said drawing,
          congratulations,
          you are spared this
          kind of lonely

  • After viewing the movie adaptation of his comics, Scott Pilgrim
           creator Bryan Lee O’Malley realized he had whitewashed himself
           out of his own story and has since decided to include more bodies
           of color in his future works. When asked about the future of Asians
           in America, I tell people I hope I hope I hope we don’t Scott
           Pilgrim ourselves.

  • Someone thought it was a good idea / to make a holiday / movie / about a white /
girl / who dies & ends / up in Brenda Song’s / body. “Wow, I’m hot now!” was her only
reaction / to the new / skin.

  • Lactaid is a greater uniter than panethnicity.

  • In minority-majority neighborhoods,
          Asian Americans are the ones you rob.

          My cousin owns three guns for safety
          & Crazy Rich Asians is about to hit

          theatres. When we first met,
          Đinh & I bonded over food

          stamps & Banquet
          tv dinners

Thanh Bui was born in Saigon and raised in Boston and Houston. Her work has appeared in Origins Literary Journal and Barrio Writers Anthology. She is a metal bender.
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