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ALWCA: politically correct

this was the poem published in A Luxury We Cannot Afford, a 2014 poetry anthology edited by Joshua Ip and Christine Chia! I’m quite sure… I can post my own work 2 years after it has been published… hahaha. anyway you can buy it here for S$19! (bit pricey I know) (but hey I don’t make the rules) (I really don’t) (please buy it it has poems that are way better than mine)

he savours the taste of the words on his tongue– sugar-coated extravagance, chocolate fondue, opulent red wine; but too much sugar ruins you. and poetry, he tells himself, is not pragmatic: not the sharp bite of the economy, the crunch of success, the gristle of globalisation. this is not what they need. so he takes a deep breath. steps onto the podium. counts to three, and swallows.