Pronunciation/definition Phước Huệ (fuhk hyoo): Name of a temple. Peace. Happiness Nam Mô A Di Đà Phật (Nammo ayida fuhk): respect offered to the enlightened one, Buddha Phật (fuhk): Buddha Forty years in America Yet you avoid learning the language. As if English has blue eyes and hands That’ll rid that durian smell Off your skin with holy water. Fuck you? No, Phước Huệ The temple you force me to go to, Hoping monks will help me speak correctly. Nothing but pink stripes on my ankles and wrists. Nam Mô A Di Đà Phật Bowing your head to the floor, you pray. Can your god from Nepal understand you? I join you, The creation of words-- for I have sinned. I don’t call him Buddha, But by what you call him-- Fuck I said Fuck I said Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck ✱✱✱
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