Verdant forest, vocal farmers,
Polyglossia will disarm us,
Contestation, labels, language,
Cosmopolitans have baggage,
How to govern? Questions linger –
Always intervene with ginger.
Government stares like Medusa,
Turn to statue in Sentosa,
Paranoia! – no we aren’t
Neural and neurotic government,
Identities fragment and platform
Split like ballet girl in Black Swan,
The elephants, the relevance,
The metaphors are elegant,
Extrapolation isn’t alright,
1sight 2sight 3sight Foresight,
You can’t solve it from the get-go
Rainer Rilke says to let go.
Trellises for vines to grow on
Vending machines on a platform,
In the places we are born in,
Be the warm sun and the long wind,
What identity belongs to which,
Friends of the zoo and the pink ostrich?
At the penumbra and the borders,
Think beside the box that sorts us
What defines is what divides us,
All the voices trapped inside us.
People invited to represent,
People united by common dissent,
We need to form a committee
In our own minds – of empathy.
Know Ourself
Presume us not to future-scan –
The proper study is who I am!
And if you find that study can’t
Find who I am, find what I want.
The world redistributes the wealth
We compartmentalize the self
What choices do I reify?
How many songs on Spotify?
How do I play in Second Life?
How do I keep a second wife?
Religion, tech, employment, races:
All the trauma to displace us.
Will the influx of mass gizmos
Cause reformation of machismo?
Whose deficit of dignity?
Whose hyphenate identity?
In packaged fundamentalism
Lies unaffiliated schism.
Cyborgs move beyond the basics,
Gamers plug into the matrix,
Poetry is VR / AR,
How to harness? We Majulah!
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Ontology of mass illusion
What is real, avoid delusion!
Professional and public buffering,
Young people do not do suffering,
Transience of migrant workers,
Self-interest behaviors irk us,
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Founding fathers top-down like that,
Metropolises to mud-flats
Fear the government, friend the boardroom,
Corporations invade vacuum,