Sunday, May 5, 2019

Nano (No. 4)


  
Blunder
Nia later explained her hesitation with the warning her grannie had given her about having anything to do with the Belanda. In Bahasa Indonesian an appropriate homonym for the coloniser.


The Real Deal
You’re a real writer alright. Real writers develop DVT, lose their sight, teeth (grinding phrases). Pretenders get their pics in the glossy pages, blather about their craft, love of art.


Mourning
Shiela had a drunkard father who died early. That brought back Stojan coming up from the cells at Fitzroy Cop-shop, blazing animal eyes softening in an instant. Softened us both.


Dissident
Bold caps on black, a local lad offering an outside chance of political protest possibly; some sly stabbing disgust.
___VEL
....Being Singapore, one should have known immediately it was nothing but comic book.


Democracy
During the Indo Presidential campaign Prabowo Subianto attended a gallery opening where a Dutch photographer featured pics of Bobby, the former general’s cat. Attempting to fudge his theft of hundreds of millions, Malaysian Najib had been conducting a similar PR exercise on Facebook.

Democratic Knights
And Prabowo you imagined the only high office candidate on the world stage mounting a white steed during campaign rallies; until the Spanish neo-fascist appeared on his own in the Basque country.

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