phone call

ring, ring, ring
"bla bla bla"

a like apple
s like sam
a like apple
f like frank

s like sam
h like hotel
a like apple
l like lemon
e like e-mail
v like victor

every time, the same damn ones

no, these are no similes

they sure are similar to my name but
your language does not contain my sounds

up against the bureaucracy, my foreignness

I must turn almost any stranger into a bureaucrat when I meet him or her
and no, you wont be able to pronounce it even if you tried
not because you dont have the sounds but because you don't

know me

"where am I from?
well,
Im from Los Angeles
fuck you"

no, I never end up saying it that way