wishes
Tag: regret
dish dashed
Ours for sale
The only thing worth buying is not really for sale. Sure, you can rent it for a while but it eventually goes stale. On the other hand (the one ticking), you have in finite stock to use or lose or watch it trickling, no matter how secure the lock, down the drain. Bleeding out the… Continue reading Ours for sale
Nothing shocks anymore
When babies wash up on the shore We do nothing but wait for more. Though barrel bombs drop from the sky We have (long ago) stopped asking why. While children are gunned down in class We sit and maybe offer up Mass. As businessmen pollute sky land and sea We ask: what's it to do… Continue reading Nothing shocks anymore
Moving parts
We make plans. Enter into .......... contracts, marriages, mortgages. Look up weather forecasts .......... for the week, the month, the year when our city will be six feet under water. We make telescopes .......... to see stars already dead, We read horoscopes .......... to see futures all ready made. We have children .......... to see… Continue reading Moving parts
land-line
In the dorm stairwell hung a public phone where each week I'd call home. Each call a litany of hellos and reports of health and weather, food and whether I had enough money as the phone burned pound coins per minute till I found international calling cards at the corner shop and talk became cheaper,… Continue reading land-line
present perfect
Let the past be because it can never be. Your mistakes have spoken hoarse my mistakes have replied. Turning back the clock breaks the mechanism inside. Background: I was sitting on a boat, travelling to Pulau Ubin, a small island north of the mainland of Singapore where my students were having a camp in the… Continue reading present perfect
