Music: Huang Ruo
JUDGE
Major Rose for the prosecution!
Major Baker for the defense
Prosecution, call your first witness
ROSE
We call the victim’s mother,
Su Zhen Chen
MOTHER CHEN
So that is the man,
That is his face
I could walk right over,
And spit between his eyes.
What could they do?
Hit me? Slap me?
I would hit him back,
Right where it hurts!
Nothing he could do to me
Nothing anyone could do
Would be worse
Than what they have
Already done.
DANNY
Ah ma
What are you doing here?
This is Fort Bragg,
Not Chinatown,
I can take care of this,
You should go home.
MOTHER CHEN
I don’t believe
This was a suicide.
My son must have died
Some other way.
I was shocked,
When I learned
That he was gone!
Gone my child,
Gone, my boy
We had a good relationship,
He would not have left us,
Not like that.
I was the one who raised him,
The one who knew his heart.