john tiong chunghoo Poems

Thailand
everywhere carte blanche
for the buddha
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Federal Hotel Revolving Lounge
looking for the skyscrapers not there
20 years ago
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jazz, folks, blues, latin...
hotter than summer
Vancouver's music festivals
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dont look for
critics who treat
your work as an
extension of
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it is just the size of
a bar of chocolate
but it can spawn
another earth
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the brain is a canvas
everybody can paint on

ideas are colours that
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rich neighbourhood
the rats run around like
big swollen wallets
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to release the poet in you
get to the person you are
unleash the spirits in you
tear down the fence yoiu
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