call sarah                                                                                   sarah yanni

mom tells the lady in her Subaru radio to call me, but the lady doesn’t understand. i’m sorry, i didn’t catch that. can you please repeat the name? mom says it again. clearer, louder, un-human speech. mouth wet, wide open. i’m sorry, i didn’t catch that. can you please repeat the name? she has lived in the usa since the nineties, spewing words in an accent incompatible with cyborgs. siri, alexa, google, the subaru lady, all un-designed to handle mom’s mexican-japanese english inflection. i’m sorry, i didn’t catch that. can you please repeat the name? she curses at the car in spanish. chinga tu madre! and turns the radio on, blasting. 

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Sarah Sophia Yanni is a half-Egyptian/ half-Mexican writer living in Los Angeles. She is an Editor at Sublevel Magazine and is currently pursuing an MFA from the CalArts School of Critical Studies. Her words have been published in Arkana Mag, BUST, Palaver Arts, and others. Find her on the internet at www.sarahsophiayanni.com