"An open letter to the entertainment industry"

if there is anyone
in the audience
in the entertainment industry
watching me perform,
i want you to keep in mind
that if you are casting any films
and need a korean grocery store owner,
a computer expert
of the random thug
of a yakuza gang,
i'm your man.

if your making jackie chan
knock-off films
and need a stunt double
that stunt double is me.

If you need a chinese jay-z
a japenese eminem,
or a vietnamese backstreet boy,
please consider me,
because i am all those things and more

i come from the house that
step n' fetch built
and i will broken english my way
to sidekick status
if that's whats expected of me,
make an asian different strokes

i'll walk around on my knees yelling,
ahso, what you talk about wirris?!

because it's been 23 months and 14 days
since my art has done anything for me,
and i would be noble and toil on,
i swear i would
live for the art and the art alone
and all that crapass.

but college loans are monthly up my ass,
my salmon teriyaki habit is getting way out of control,
and i want some
motherfucking cable!

so you can understand where i'm coming from
when tight verse
exhibiting dynamics
within the text
falls by the wayside
and our culture
rejoices in its
pretty, packaged, boygroup
talentless twats
sent from florida
to make me puke

but im not preaching, nome siree, boss
i cannot stress how ready i am
to sell out...

-An excerpt from Beau Sia's piece.