creative expletives

thanksgiving, by Tao Lin

i feel most comfortable around middle-class japanese people
i know they are all thinking the same things as me

WHY ARE THE LINES SO LONG?
WHY AM I IN NEW JERSEY?

though their faces appear calm
their thoughts are exactly like i just put them

also

about how we cannot communicate in our first languages:

we don’t care
we don’t want to communicate at all
we just want to get our food
and eat it

and go home
and go to sleep

or else go home
and discover a secret passageway behind the refrigerator
and move the refrigerator back to where it was
and take a shower
and go to sleep

(from Tao Lin’s you are a little bit happier than i am)