Subtleties

             I think that the poem is talking about prostitution, at the time when the Japanese were here at the height of the World War II. The author used imageries such as "Sushi", knowing that that particular food is native of Japan and is eaten raw and should be kept fresh all the time. Then it followed by another line saying "Phirrippine meat", perhaps to say meat coming from the Philippines, implicated by the fact that this particular "meat" is fresh. "Philippines" was spelled as such because in the Japanese alphabet, there is no letter L (so pronouncing and spelling my name Lin would also be Rin). As a conclusion, the speaker in the poem cries, "Oh, Susie!" perhaps, addressing the name of the girl who is entertaining her.
             The imageries enabled me to arrive at the conclusion that the poem is reflecting on another side, perhaps a sensitive side of colonization-how it is more than just a super power of a country invading another neighboring country (because of military tactics) but more so, how it inflicts the worse kind of abuse among its inhabitants by degrading their morality and playing with their dignity.
             The way the speaker conveyed the meaning of the poem was really subtle, and I thought (and still do) that looking for the meaning of the poem would be a difficult task particularly because of the length of the poem. It is rather short, and I think the meaning is just staring at me all this time, but discovering it wasn't as direct and as fast as how it was written.
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