{"id":1126,"date":"2020-11-26T17:03:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T22:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietphilly.net\/hq11\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2020-11-26T17:56:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T22:56:01","slug":"21-working-for-a-refugees-resettlement-agency-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietphilly.net\/hq11\/21-working-for-a-refugees-resettlement-agency-in-philadelphia\/","title":{"rendered":"21. Working for a Refugees Resettlement Agency in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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21. Working as a Caseworker for NSC in Philadelphia<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The<\/span><\/span> <\/b>Diep Thai family lived in Philadelphia,
<\/span><\/span>Graciously, they let me sleep on their couch.
<\/span>The B.S. in PNG Engineering was just a piece of shit;
<\/span>It was useless for me, as if everyone thought it was a real BS.<\/span><\/p>\n

I went back to the restaurant I\u2019d worked in the summer,
<\/span><\/span>The owner kindly took back the student he knew.
<\/span>After working at the Chinese Restaurant for six months,
<\/span>I found a caseworker job helping new Asian refugee folks.<\/span><\/p>\n

At that time there were so many refugees coming to Philadelphia.
<\/span><\/span>Afghans, Cambodians, Vietnamese, Laotians, and Ethiopians.
<\/span>They came to Philadelphia in groups large and small;
<\/span>Vietnamese Boat People were the largest group of all.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because I had a job, but not the one I went to school for.
<\/span><\/span>Even though my salary was not much, it was enough.
<\/span>On weekends, I usually went out with friends,
<\/span>Visiting strip clubs and steamy Chinatown hot bath dens.<\/span><\/p>\n

Being single with no children,
<\/span><\/span>I spent all my money on prostitutes.
<\/span>My life was quite a mess,
<\/span>Though the women of the night felt blessed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Incidentally, I found myself in a love affair
<\/span><\/span>With a woman who was insanely fair.
<\/span>We gave each other our bodies, our souls,
<\/span>Wishing that our lives could be one whole.<\/span><\/p>\n

Awakened from the dream, I just said,
<\/span><\/span>When I felt my underwear messy with wet sticky cream,
<\/font>\u201cOh my darling, I\u2019ll be fine if we never meet.\u201d
<\/span><\/span>How could we live our separate lives once we had met?<\/span><\/p>\n

When would I meet her again?
<\/span><\/span>Let me look at her long eyelashes.
<\/span>Seeing her, I remember the way
<\/span>Her body jerked with ecstasy.
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21. Working as a Caseworker for NSC in Philadelphia The Diep Thai family lived in Philadelphia, Graciously, they let me sleep on their couch. The B.S. in PNG Engineering was just a piece of shit; It was useless for me, as if everyone thought it was a real BS. I went back to the restaurant…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-sailor-named-lay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietphilly.net\/hq11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietphilly.net\/hq11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietphilly.net\/hq11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietphilly.net\/hq11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietphilly.net\/hq11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietphilly.net\/hq11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietphilly.net\/hq11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietphilly.net\/hq11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietphilly.net\/hq11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietphilly.net\/hq11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietphilly.net\/hq11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}