just watch me:

[ah-ma = taiwanese for grandma]

ah-ma, it was you who beat your rough brothers at basketball, and quit when they said no one would marry a girl with calves as thick as tree trunks. you married the handsomest man in town. it was you, ah-ma, who smashed the pretty vase in the studio where your brother-in-law and his mistress slept, and the fox face turned as white as the shards of porcelain scattered across the floor. it was also you, ah-ma, who threatened to kill the same weasel when lil' sis died of a broken heart, and he was frightened he didn't show up at the funeral. you who swung a golf club aimed at your husband's soft ball of cartilage (ankle) because he broke his word to you. it is you, ah-ma, who i'm calling out to tonight. i need the strength of all the women in my family, and i need it now. ah-ma, do you remember when you told me, waiting at the crosswalk with my little hand in yours, that it was "dancing rain"— the kind that comes down so hard the raindrops seem to bounce right back up again, pining for the sky? well, the clouds are belly-full now, ah-ma, and the heat so oppressive you can feel thunder about to be unleashed in a quiver from the sky: this is an incantation born of wrath, listen ah-ma.