Jerome Ellison Murphy was born in Italy and grew up in Maryland and Pennsylvania. He earned his MFA from the Creative Writing Program at New York University, where he serves as undergraduate programs manager. He is also a board member of Emotive Fruition and has served on the board of the Lambda Literary Foundation.

Rundown

by Jerome Ellison Murphy

Funny, how none of us
married Chinese.


How younger brother has said
Stupid Asian Neighbors
so many times in my head
since he said it:
that once


I was even younger than he
when that boy so much bigger
tied my calf to a branch
and started to pull
till one neighbor heard
shouts and looked up
while quickly walking past
People on couch
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