Polish (poem)

"My parents had just gotten divorced."

"I didn't know how to spell our new last name."

"I was a kid, only 8 years old."

"My mom and I didn't have anywhere else to go."

"So we moved into my grandfather's."

"I didn't know how to spell our new last name, so I just wrote 'Polish' on those cards, you know for school?"

"Well one day, the school sent him a letter..."

"It was addressed to a Mr. Polish."

"Yeah, well...my grandfather didn't find that as funny."

"He made us both sleep in the vestibule, me and my mother, until I got it spelled right."

"V-I-L-A-V-I-N-N-Y-I-O-Y-S-W-I".

"So nawh, your last name isn't weird."