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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."