Indonesia, Song of Red and White
my country where my mother lived and died
giving birth to five deaths, five silent deaths
silence of little babies lying cold on the tears-stained sheet of the bed
all the dreams, all the hopes of a noisy future
cut off and sliced by five angels of death
angels of envy, angels of burning crosses
angels that only dared to scare five little new born babies Read more… »
Looking for Charles Bukowski in K Rd
shit & death is everywhere
except around K Rd
retro paradise of alcoholic angels
& prophets of semen redemption
its skyline has the colour of Timothy Leary’s rainbow
guarded by clean-shaven Dunhill-smoking Tae Bo-practising Herculeses
carefully assessing the initiates to the temples of Zeus Read more… »
evil groom
let me do some infidelity first
before we talk
of marriage
of children
of all the happiness that young couples dream of
I’m a fallen angel
destined to be human
in the rainbow of the city’s night lights Read more… »
the persistence of memory
a leaf falls under the moonlight
an owl awakes when it touches the wet earth
I try not to think of you when
a leaf falls under the moonlight
a bamboo flute shrills in the midnight hour
a cicada awakes when it touches the wet rock
I close my eyes and try not to remember when
a bamboo flute shrills in the midnight hour Read more… »
Blues for Allah 1
the sky’s so blue the kids’re playing
then the sea rose and ate up everything –
tsunami
Blues for Allah 2
the lonely moon and
the silent night are what the
tsunami left behind Read more… »