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A photograph of young woman in a yellow and black period dress holds a black mask.
Issue 4 Summer 2021, Poetry, Poetry 4.0

Going Out

July 26, 2021 | by
A photograph of young woman in a yellow and black period dress holds a black mask.

Carl Guderian via Flickr

Going Out

 

I went out today
for the first time
in a while.

I thought about wearing
my new black dress
but decided it might be better
for a date night
than a funeral.

I was sure to
accessorize appropriately
with a black mask.

Rebecca Chhay

 

Rebecca Chhay is a third-year PhD student in the UCLA English department. She is broadly interested in comparative ethnic US literatures, trauma, and memory. Her latest work focuses on Southeast Asian American diasporic narratives.