must be nice

to destroy

every home

to come out

unscathed

as the ruined

fight each other

over the havoc

that you wreaked.

a white man

with a guitar

strolled up to me and said, 

"let me guess - 

filipina?"

as if I were

a trivia game

and when I said, 

"no"

he heard an invitation 

to keep guessing

all of the countries

from that side of the map.