This ebook is a collection of Singaporean author Gilbert Koh's poetry and prose literature. The author writes about interpersonal relationship, romance, and other day-to-day happenings.
My father growing old -- My father takes my son for a walk -- Not home -- Children’s rhyme -- Catholic school -- Mondays -- Warning to a lover -- Apples -- Family -- Business travel -- Surgery -- Accident -- Without you -- What I didn’t tell you -- Photograph -- Palmistry -- Osho on love -- Wednesday morning, 3 A.M. -- Conception -- A nothing kind of job -- One picture of the two of you -- You had a nightmare -- Grandmother’s garden -- Durian -- Terminal -- Paddy Chew’s last show -- The schoolgirl kills herself after failing an exam -- The trains -- Ching Ming -- Poison -- The death of Sergeant Ong Jia Hui -- Chiang’s heat stroke -- In our schools -- The widow -- Ex-convict at a public swimming pool -- Foreign worker cutting trees -- Construction -- Hong Lim Park -- National Day Parade -- National leadership -- Strangers -- The couple next door -- Old folks home -- Tiananmen Square -- On foreign talent -- The execution of Nguyen Tuong Van -- The bureaucracy -- Somebody’s ashes -- December shopping -- The Pied Piper of Hamelin -- Mirror, mirror on the wall -- Early influences -- A completely safe, good poem -- Avoiding complications -- We were talking poetry at a coffee café -- The dead poems -- Midnight arpeggios -- House lizard -- Kuala Lumpur -- Train ride to Singapore -- Garden city -- Changi Airport -- Camera.
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All rights reserved. Ethos Books and Gilbert Koh, 2011