A Memory of Many Children’s Faces
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unlined absurdities:
33 degrees out, a stream of sweaty blue.a kid flapping a sock approaches like an omen.you know from their faceswhich are the trickster godsand which are mortal
to be barreled up into higher rungsmouth gasping, two red-pink ovalsopening and closing for dear lifeand eyes grown into lidless slitsas the wheeled familiar gnaws away.
and “children should be allowed to make mistakes”hums dully, afternoon-wise, into my mind—unbidden. the sock-swinging prophet with thedevil’s sweet facemarches on for the next calorie-loaded treat;
while from above, like a thunderclapthe headlines circle, land, roostaround the latest unlucky onesthe casualties who fell,or pushed,twenty storeys, we don’t know. [End Page 67]
Eleanor Neo is a literature graduate and teacher. She has written short stories and dramatic pieces for Ceriph, The Ayam Curtain, the NUS Arts Festival, and the Singapore Arts Festival.
