"Tell Me How to Write a Love Song", Joses Ho
you're drunk. good. write me a love song. for no-one else. just me. bonus points if you sober up by the end. let graves go untended. if you use the words "gasoline" and "pyjamas". stand on your soaking bedsheets and sing it. don't sleep with your air-con tonight. pay your taxes but don't say a prayer. every singapore poet must write an air-con poem. write the air-con repairperson a love song. now say a prayer. ignore the half-rhymes of kiss and mist. write about the haze. sand and fog. where is the air-con controller? imagine if your colonscopist found a monster inside your throat. write microfiction about that. finish your tea. plagiarise yourself. turn the air-con on. bonus if you don't use the controller. write a poem about oil refining. ask if the air-con man wants a cold drink. bonus if they turn you down. frown. do not use an adjective. ask the monster if they want a cup of cold water. ask them where the air-con controller is. post "fuck Mark Zuckerberg and his data surveillance empire". bonus if the monster follows you to work. show and tell at school. bonus if your teacher adds you on facebook.