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Yeow Kai Chai has two poetry collections, Pretend I’m Not Here (2006), and Secret Manta (2001), which was adapted from an entry shortlisted for the 1995 Singapore Literature Prize. In 2009, he edited the anthology Reflecting on the Merlion with Edwin Thumboo, with his own poems included in the anthologies No Other City: The Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry and Love Gathers All: The Singapore-Filipino Anthology of Love Poetry. A journalist and music critic, he is also a co-editor of the independent online journal Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (QLRS).

Jul 19, 2010

Poetry

Couplets

here you are faceless bobs like flotsam in the strait narrow sea scented with iridescent oil radiating in rainbow swirl as fin glistens before tell-tale lollipops are sucked into the cistern

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Jul 19, 2010

Poetry

Quarterly Report No. 6: Ethnological Warfare Atrocity Exhibition

But for the present, it’s beyond my control. When it finally happens after yet another 20 minutes, the helplessness underscores the inexorable reel of martyrdom, twirling madly in and out of love, as if the whole universe will now be birthed into another plastic bag, clean as disinfectant.  We – all of us sworn witnesses,

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Jul 19, 2010

Poetry

Quarterly Report No. 7: Epiphytes And Vetiver Control

in memory of adult film actress Karen Bach Before the fourth sunrise, the road shoulder has already shrugged off its riffraff, grass grower over night without tea or sympathy. Side alley slippers from the lights,

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Jul 19, 2010

Poetry

From A To Z, An Action-packed Zoetrope Via Taste, Fruit, Bodily Organs And Synthetic Organisms

acrid mango mandibles android! bitter abdomen banana cyborg! sichuan cylons cardio coconuts! gourd doraemon digits acidic! mexican telerobot lemon uterus! fallopian fizzy fembots figs!

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Jul 19, 2010

Poetry

My Flooey Love

The Merlion, after Thumboo, Euripides and Trakr the dog Not quite what was planned, but neither are we entirely (ever) allowed free roaming privileges. My flooey love, How you have arrived (ended up?) at this river, is a question

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