By Sargon Yousefian Dezag Tekkie

Assimilation as 

Erasure. 

I’ve spent a good chunk 

Of my life not understanding 

What happened around me.

I was wanted to pass 

As something impossible. 

Things were thought, 

Maybe taught to be, 

as circumstantial 

To hide oppression. 

I was cancelled, 

In order to be adjusted.