An American in Polomolok

If being white is never having to say 'I exist' being an American is never having to say 'Jesus, the chickens are mating in the house!'

Reflexes.

"It's just like communion," the other American said. "There's a body and bood and then you eat it. Except we don't drink the blood. And at least we cook the chicken first."

Maybe I'm too new, maybe I just don't see it. I hope the chicken didn't suffer too much, but it sure took her a long time to die.

"Those are just leftover relexes," the others said. I nodded. We kill chickens in the US too, but we like to torture them first. And we never seem to look them in the eye.

These are just leftover reflexes. I come from a land without hunger, from a place packaged and polished and ready for sale. But I have been here a while and I have seen too much death to say, "Well that was just a chicken."