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Month: October 2019

Posted on October 30, 2019June 5, 2021

Something’s Got To Give

A biographical narrative on Marilyn Monroe to go with the imaginative piece about her, from few days ago.

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Posted on October 26, 2019January 6, 2020

What if?

I've always wondered what would have happened if just one thing had gone differently.

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Posted on October 25, 2019

Reality TV and the real world

This was a piece I wrote in 2003. Although some of the shows mentioned may not be around, many still are, and I think this is still very relevant today.

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Posted on October 22, 2019October 22, 2019

The Hidden Scars All Refugees Carry- written by Viet Thanh Nguyen

This was an opinion piece written by Pulitzer prize winning author, Viet Thanh Nguyen and was published on Sept 3 2016 in the New York Times.

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Posted on October 21, 2019October 22, 2019

To a Flowering Gum Tree

I loved your graceful, awkward limbs, the red and yellow powder puffs, bright,in the soft dawn of those sizzling summer daysthat give no quarter beneath…

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Posted on October 21, 2019October 21, 2019

Wasteland

Artwork by: Carlos Azanedo This prison of the soul,our showpiece of humanity- our city.This jewelled concrete wasteland filled with beingsthe conditioned delusions, twisted personalitiesand the…

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Posted on October 20, 2019October 19, 2019

City Bus Stop

Snakelike and silentwary of unbidden recognition,anonymous segments of a long tailhalf protected by a flimsy canopyof a plastic sky.Eyelids hooded against the winterFurtive mourners sidle…

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Posted on October 19, 2019

The Swan

Swan River, Perth, Western Australia This is a place of many dimensionswhere history clashes with modern progression.Where once stood buildings of wood and white stonenow…

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Posted on October 10, 2019October 19, 2019

I love these Singapores

I still love these Singapores. The one I grew up with, the one that's not there anymore. The vast field full of moths ants grasshoppers…

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Posted on October 10, 2019October 9, 2019

A Song of Singapore

I'm not some high-born poet, hatchet-holding. I'm not some Woken Writer, justice-fighting. I'm not some Prodigy, groomed and gelded by Expectation. Who am I to…

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