04/13/2006
If just to prove we can afford to eat more
than 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 with their delusion
that their body^serfdom is final empire
Your hope is to climb these stairs and find a point
high enough from which active Heart’s beacon can
be seen ~ now my mind-reader fancies himself
a peeker-through and peeler-off of pretexts
i feel i should kick him – send him sprawling flat
and his notebook flapping dirty through the air
But that wouldn’t make me suffer – he continues
(from Limboa, a sentimental anthem
by Brian Chan, 2023)
FARJOURNEY CARIBBEAN 