Concealed Exit Ahead

- Nonsense prose poem read at the launch of Cyril Wong's The End Of His Orbit, Aug 25, 2001

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what does the boy hear in the wind

why why

ghost of a stir

here goes a fly

by night bird

strea bleek over edg of white

absent vowl

a toy

head revolving

freaky

night

in

gale

quick flip page

enraged

the fowl flung out of cage

missing persons winnowed by sense

tense

he watches the stars

go out

what s dat

bats

hear what the human ear can t

while a clandestine ray

glides over dreamer

devil fish

angel

or apostrophe

flee

here s a dish for easy empathy

downed with assumptions

and after words

toss plastic bag into the sea

black against blight of a very certain star

startled

he sees images

only beautiful images

sagely clear

papyrus white

why why

fly undone

what s the poetry worth

saddled with cross

heavy

poultry addled in meaning

no rotting

hot night

a head

dotted with pot

holes detours dead ends

so look above

half moon

catacomb

smoked with secrets

traffic amber flickering

a lost sheep or two

hoo

is the northern star

the way home

and how does the magus

paddle to slip

here s a sleep

road to temptation

horizon

the godly rule that leads to a clean mellifluous future

slowly

suture unstitching

the end crowing

stow

a way

driving

close

to the bend

a

happy

hen

By Yeow Kai Chai

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