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Sushi Society

from Late Convert by Sam Nabi

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To be honest, I can't tell what umami tastes like
You crinkle up your brow like now you know I wasn't raised right
A subtle salty fullness that my palate just can't quite comprehend
Like the Kanji script at the consulate
Let's take a plane across the date line
Race the rising sun past the horizon and you know we're making great time
All I know's the war and not the hate crime
Not the way the bomb resounded outward like a grape vine
Hitting our shores like a mistake you can't erase, right
1942 was a disgrace, White Canada showing its face
Still the master race, leaving a legacy of pain
And sometimes I just don't know what to say

We're much more than two solitudes
Our history is what you call abuse
It's time to own up to the truth
Stop hiding our ugly past in the stories we tell our youth

I was raised in modern ways in the suburban GTA
Model minority mixie with the perfect grades
My French Immersion teachers piled on the praise
Saying I would feel at home in Quebec someday
But that was wishful thinking, this is 1998
And no, that 49% didn't just dissipate
We like to think of this mosaic as a blank slate
Colour-by-numbers they box you in 'cause they don't want you to escape
Like back in BC, they were loading folks in crates
Mothers and daughters, sons and fathers separated
I didn't know we had our own homegrown fascist state
Whose freedom were we fighting for anyway?

So if Canadians are so well-known for always saying sorry
Why did it take 47 years for an apology?
We'll gladly take your VCRs and Gameboys and Ataris
And spent our childhoods playing Mario Party
And I'm digging the aesthetic watching Princess Mononoke
And the new place down the block makes some amazing bento boxes
I consume what I receive because it's cool and kinda breezy
And I don't think how an immigrant might not have it so easy

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from Late Convert, released October 25, 2016
Beat by pnk (soundcloud.com/orpalepnk)

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