Change Begins At Home
By Jennifer Tan, Staff Writer

on leather couches in front of TV screens,
on dinner tables with lobster claw paper cuts
slicing through layers
of nurtured cultures,
of non-static alterations,
of love in mind, struggling to be
defined, refined, regenerated
as ancient, as fixed, as traditional
customs immune to transformation.

It starts here,
on the spot marked with urgency,
within the comfy confines of family,
in the heapfuls of rice stuffed
into mouths, muffling words
of dissatisfied nourishment and continuity.
It starts here,
on these pages of a sketchbook
filling up with unanswerable inquiries,
and unread self-soliloquies.