I decide the paradox of choice lay in the fact that “Americans” don’t need an American dream, while ours was confined to a Hobson’s choice. I wonder why my citizenship certificate didn’t give me a fast pass to a dream my parents sacrificed everything for.
Author: Phalaen Chang
Phalaen Chang is a senior in the Creative Writing Conservatory at California School of the Arts-San Gabriel Valley in Duarte whose work has appeared through platforms such as Global Girl Media + Women's Voices Now, the Los Angeles Times and High School Insider. She was also named a 2018 Los Angeles County Youth Poet Ambassador and a finalist for the Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate Program.