House Song with Wonder Woman
       

Wonder Woman came to my house to further the cause. But you're not even Asian, I said, at the front door. She tapped her shield and asked if I wanted to borrow her lasso. To wear it. To help with my poems. To further the cause. No thanks. She turned and strutted through my yard, glowing with strength, rippling with majesty. Can you teach me to be like you? I said. She sliced earth with her sword, planted some strawberries. Now you know, she said, before flying away. I sank my knees into irradiated boot prints, as if remnants of her invincibility could suffuse me. I hadn't told her my superpower yet. That I can parallel park. That I'm scared of masks, wearing them, not wearing them. The truth. That I'm no good with plants.

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