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random lines from the Singaporean poet Arthur Yap every couple hours// created by @MichelleLeeYY
Joined April 2020
windowpanes of tiny raindrops cling uncertainly, left from night rain.
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a curiously fluid morning, spring not fully arrived & things go on their own ways. in the hothouses, unforced, the theme is verdant crisis.
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words were hung on every tree. the most striking, startingly orange, tuned by the breeze.
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another day, she groped for adam's cork screw, dropped among thick picnicking grass.
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eve or six boats left their bridge, left the bridging imagination of our mind, & drifted aimlessly, lanterns bright.
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in a moment, a full able-bodied choir, a sweet clear siren that reached out nowhere & everywhere & destroyed no one.
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you are my sensibilities & i wear your heart, your eyes, in my footnotes.
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the evening sun walks up the cove & drops smartly into slopping eyes. you can hear your own fascination.
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a white paper cup thrown among michaelmas daisies multiplied quickly
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we can look, saying ‘so it is’. we hear some song & look for a radio, we see an arm & hook it slung.
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the finagling snake quiet as coiled repose. the voluptuous apple slept on, heavy as a stone, a minuscule pumpkin.
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where does the road end & the beach begin?\mIt is not easy to say, so closely do the 2 forms intermingle.
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but of what avail is such perpetual unattainment? i know the stupid bird can never eat the stupid peach
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a white paper cup thrown among michaelmas daisies multiplied quickly
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& it goes on in various variations & permutations. there is no future in nostalgia.
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man looked at everything with the calm of unknowing eyes & did not want. he remained empty till he did; the lie outright.
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ah beng is so smart, already he can watch tv & know the whole story.
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the simplicity of the elements, nevertheless, is not to be trusted.
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i know, near you, i myself feel good. & this is enough for me, my friend.
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