10/13/2025
Noga as a singer is as frightening
as her person is approachably kindly
in her looking-after of hungry people
even us with too much food-money to be
hungry in the gut but who eat anyway –
if just to prove we can afford to eat more
that our spoilsport cardiologists advise^
too-much proves us as rich as not-enough prods
poor people to seek heart beyond the wilful
muscular organ pumping away under
its cage of ribs policing its tyranny
of automatic memory and its twin
amnesiac habit and their delusion
that their body-serfdom is their final empire
(from “Limboa”, a sentimental anthem,
by Brian Chan, 2023)
FARJOURNEY CARIBBEAN 