The Story of Passion, copyright 2007.

Mariko Passion

not a trend or a fashion

meaning: child of pure truth + PASSION

lost but now found
comin’ with enough direction to ration
I’m like a drug that you’re stashin
gotten so used to the talk they b trashinDo you really think you’re different-
or better than me just
cause you give it up to your man for “free?”I came to this work as an activist
given the knowledge and power
and space
to truly blossom into
a cherry blossom ginger flower
born out of womens movements gone sour.
so much strife and struggle,
I thought it was an addiction
but in the end it was my finest hour.so
they say they are feminists but
tell me
why don’t they listen to
us so called prostituted women
crying for
the right to a voice
consistently ignored
hundreds of years of animosity
silenced and stored
its just the oldest profession
you’d think they’d be bored
but they just don’t see that
when mommy married rich,
its just with one client she whored

and don’t get me started
with my so called
revolutionary sisters and brothers
who want to deny our sexual power
and force us to conform and cower
believing the eradictation of
pimps, hos and prostitution
and/or absolution
is supposed to be a realistic
or liberating solution?

replicating the oppression you sought to condemn
the need to raid, rescue, protect, serve or silence
is a cycle of violence that was started by THEM!

Mariko Passion:
far from another
no agenda havin, small dog holding,
fake breasted
debutante Cinderella
a self determined ass kickin independent Asian Jezebel-la. Looking to do business and not marriage with the next open minded fella
From the NorCally Bay Area, home of the hify and the hella

transplanted to South Central LA
the rent and the weather way better
so down there is where I stay
it’s not about force or choice
but many shades of gray
and I work to create a voice
and I make strides towards better dayz
not an addiction to be cured
not a pathology or a phase
speaking out whenever I can
about the
moral panic
sex slave
trafficked victim craze

complexifying paradigms
and opening minds when I open my mouth
Sex Workers Outreach Project
covering the state from north to South
a nationwide movement
a whore revolution
constantly pushing towards the much needed solutions
our work; never done
and most is unpaid but satisfying and fun

so
I keep pointing my politics in their faces
and make them stare into it like its
the barrel of their own gun
and if you thought the fight was over—
well, it’s only just begun.