NOT MY FIRST MASK

NOT MY FIRST MASK aka 2020 SELFIE 

I don’t wear a mask 

because of a virus—I wear masks 

because they charge me 

with "Asian"

Eileen R. Tabios

after “For Asian Americans, There Are Two Pandemics: COVID-19 and Daily Bigotry” by Brittany Wong, HuffPost, March 26, 2020