Ignorance is Bliss

Ignorance is Bliss

A Poem by Chong N. Kim
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A spoken word about my experience.

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Ignorance in Bliss

As I walk in the door

I can feel the eyes sizing me up.

I walk with a limp and yet

I’m immediately discriminated.

Without saying Hi, or give me a grin,

Instead I get rude customer service

Cause I didn’t come in with a suit.

I like to check out thrift stores

Instead of throwing dollars

to markets that exploits the human mind.

 

People say EDUCATION is the key,

But if ignorance is all you are taught

Then when do you find the lock to unfold

The questions?

You see, I was a high school dropout

not cause I wanted to be,

after constant bullying and racial discrimination

my mind said, “no more.”

 

Shortly after that I didn’t realize running away

Came with a price tag,

As long as I fell in the system,

My name would later transfer to the human trade.

Exploiters just eagerly waiting to rape my soul away.

Breaking me down to where my mind would leave me

In a pathos of insanity.

 

All shatter pieces on the ground,

Came to America to find my way out of poverty

“Land of the Free” is the sign given to thee,

But how many slaves must suffer from lies like these?

 

The government promises justice, yet they are so blind

Or maybe it’s just plain ignorance on their part

That some of them are part of what makes the market go round and round.

The economy is crashing and yet blame is cast on both side of political pole

Yet we are still undiscerning to what WE want to believe.

 

A sea of naive children relying on media to educate their perception,

Yet so many find fascinating when we are taught

The only way to get to the top is desperation,

While Satan awaits on the other end.

 

Don’t you see the ultimate cause of this atrocity is that are children

Are basically crying out . . .

“I just need you with me.”

So many films made today, but didn’t make it on the

Oscar list cause it didn’t exploit or glamorize the pornography

Of our children,

It didn’t make the cut:

Trust, Disconnect & Eden

Yes my story didn’t make it to the list.

 

When we watch films of sorcery and magic

To take us to Never land,

Keep us in the bubble we don’t want to hear the truth,

And while we are in it,

Where have our children disappeared to?

 

I’m called constantly by the people in power

To “help” them educate the public so they

Receive a “Star” on their platform while

Confessing my horrific testimony,

I get a tissue and a simple “Thank you” with no sincerity insight.

 

My words have become their stats,

Yet it’s tweaked to their likings,

Many of us who share our names

Are always ignored,

Just like the slaves who built the White House of America,

Are their names ever memorialized to be remembered? No.

 

I never went to college,

But what my experience taught me you will never

Find in any institute or entity anywhere.

I couldn’t find my way through HS Geography,

But my hustling navigation taught me

The exact points of sellers and buyers.

 

I wasn’t a mathematician, since

I failed that concept being “Asian-American”

But I learned how to be the bookie

And I became in charge of the money and transfer

Funds that were over 50 grand a day.

 

I got my education in Political Science,

When I met my “john” who happen to represent

A state that I once lived in,

After being the puppet for a show he paid for,

I learned that there was way to get rid of the score.

 

And last but not least, economy is what I learned more

About this trade, you can’t do any of the above if you

Have no concept of the world economy in your hands.

From trade to distribution, to money laundering and racketeering

From drugs to human exploitation

All of that with no college education.

 

So, if you think Education equals to intelligence . . .

Think again, before you head down that path.

Education open some doors,

But the streets open so much more,

But be cautious in your path

Everything we learn comes with a price.

 

© Chong Kim, 2013

© 2013 Chong N. Kim


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Added on October 5, 2013
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Chong N. Kim
Chong N. Kim

Dallas, TX



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