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FISHY LOVE

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JEREM
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played

12

tammy ho
lai -ming

once born
doorknobs

16

4.

Playing is the

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ONCE BORBS
DOORKNO

rtain
wpanes or cu
come windo
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we cannot be
to accept fat
we have learnt
his
rods. bitterly,
ay;
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lke
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ato
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ever since ou
toolbox shut.
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en our coatin
one
one day, wh
shape, some
slightly out of
r
and we look
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dels. see, wiv
and shinier mo
us folks.
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long ago to see
we decided
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locked. or ref
date are
doors remain
gotiations to
ain open. ne
all doors rem
.
deadlocked

14

belynda sim

godric

10

tammy ho
lai -ming

death sings
of his game

S GAME
NGS OF HI
DEATHDoSI
nna Fox
-for

men
d many wo
have love otten a
my life I
forg
Throughout me, I have never
e
ev
& beli
face.
round,
infants:
faces of
Some had t.
The day
en
.
uc
ne
s go
re
transl
day all wa
nances we
Then one r own baby counte
ot
when thei on
thers cann
d
Mo
te
in
s.
pr
be
im
eching ba
their scre ,
t
gh
trick time how young, how ti to let go
no matter l are. Some failed them live for
they stil girly ways. I let
shed
of their gh
been squa
long enou e their faces had
to realis
e.
ag
.
st
by
d them fa
Then I di

the game

of the game
hin the rules
y with rules wit
are adhering to
You can only pla
3.1
decides if you
is the one who
ge
jud
The
3.11
the judge
the rules or not
playing with
the rules means
Playing with
3.12
, or hears.
sees
e
(s)h
t
wha
y judge based on
A judge can onl
n
3.2
ed on perceptio
with the
g
yin
Judgement is bas
pla
ns
3.21
the rules mea
Playing with
3.22
the judge
perception of
ent is the judge
or wrong except
y basis of judgem
onl
The
(s)he is right
3.23
of telling if
way
no
has
ge
ent
3.231 A jud
gem
jud
h judgement
own
e is judging, eac
by judging her
judge when (s)h
judge can only
3.232 If the
of the rules
rything
ent
eve
g,
gem
gin
jud
a
jud
e is
is also
judge when (s)h
all the rules.
judge can only
e
in exception to
3.233 If the
rules of the gam
is potentially
it
the
,
g
ges
tin
jud
e
wri
(s)h
ges, (s)he is ree the judge jud
3.234 Each tim
game
The judge is the
3.3

time, there is
ched all the
for we are tou
bear witness
inine about us.
laints
something fem
utter no comp
we
e:
nc
era
to our tol
our torsos,
asy hands rub
gre
en
wh
n
eve
es less so.
ently, sometim
sometimes urg
by
: penetrated
erience worse
d
true, we exp
erations cause
enduring op
or
s
ick
thp
are
too
ow, people
keys. you kn
.
en
by stuck fat
ts happ
and acciden
mischievous,

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mabel

h the rules of

e is playing wit

Playing the gam

3.

paoi hwang

Hippolyta

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g to win
sly means playin
opponent(s)
med by
beating your
es
olv
onent(s) as dee
inv
g
Winnin
ahead of the opp
2.1
the one that is
The winner is
2.11
es of the game
rul
the
es
hin
rul
wit
)
the
t your opponent(s
You can only bea
2.12
judge has to
s means that a
es the rules, thi
uir
req
g
nin
If win
2.2
our
g
fav
yin the game
judge in your
ortant that pla
ge is more imp
Playing the jud
2.21
is the game
ge
jud
the
g
Playin
2.22

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sim
belynda

chrissy

on
sara ch

03

Playing seriou

17

15

sara chong

01

in any game
There are rules
1.1
rules
ose to follow the
1.11 You can cho
rules
ose to break the
play the game
1.112 You can cho
rules you can
the
low
play
fol
1.12 If you
can no longer
ak the rules you
1.121 If you bre
rules
the
low
fol
play, you will
rules well
If you want to
1.2
must know the
t play well, you
ut rules
abo
s
iou
1.21 If you wan
ser
serious
ng
you choose to be
well means bei
es,
g
yin
rul
ut
Pla
1.22
ious abo
choose to be ser
ious
1.221 Since you
ser
be
to
you choose
about games
ut games means
to be serious abo
1.222 Choosing
about play.

yanyun
chen
selfishn
ess

a sim
belynd

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Games are to be

05

03

ON PLAYING /
JEREMY FERNANDO

ld.
dy and bo
men: stur s and uncles
er
faces of
Some had after their fath mothers.
r
ok
ei
to
th
ey
to
Th
not coy,
own only
or men kn no pretence, were seduce or annoy.
w to
They had
them long
learned ho
not having them most. I gave
too.
I admired ll
eir men,
th
ed
fu
iv
outl
lives,
ip. They
ls.
ge
of hardsh
an
d
te
counterfei
faces of
really.
Some had le
ces. Not
Their suppre oblivious to vi
astray
bodies we know
nt
we
ly
te
Some did ol: they delibera goldfish.
how to fo rosebuds, feed a nted; I doubt
wa
er
th
ey
th
nevolent
to ga
s most be
know what
I do not selves knew. I wa they were
they them taking them when
to them, g,
daydreamin g, living.
fantasisin

undoing of the

04

on
sara ch

02

06

game

09

tammy ho
lai -ming

where were
you last
night?

WHERE WERE YOU LAST

NIGHT?
-for Steven Digm
an
Where were you last
In the city centre. night?
The writers read too At a book launch.
long, the microphones
were loud.
I drank some wine,
didn
I wanted to smash thos 't eat.
They looked too neat e piles of books.
.
Where were you last
night?
In the woods, catching
The white rabbit guid unicorns.
Fireflies danced with ed me.
dying bees.
I laid a deer next
to her mother
where there was scen
I watched them fall t of ciderwood.
into
a deep deep sleep.
Were you the hawk acro
Your eyes kept me awak ss the great lake?
e.
Where were you last
night?
Waiting, in a pumpkin
chariot, to be resc
Waiting, combing my
ued.
hair in a castle,
to be rescued.
Waiting, in a Danish
rive
r, to be rescued.
Waiting, in a picture,
to be rescued.
Waiting, in a glass
coffin watched by dwar
to be rescued.
fs,

half
way
there
keep
ng
i
d
a
re

ver heard
that are ne
The echoes
ay
aw
go
art
Do not ever
ck of the he
er to the ba
They gath
play
to
ay
st
ls
Where ange
height
s of great
The shadow
rn by day
tu
re
d
an
ts
t
Dance nigh
of the hear
ck
ba
e
th
at
To gather
play
to
ay
st
ls
Where ange

08

michael
kearney

summer play

now hatch
s burrowed
y
The wisdom
ure and la
pt
ri
sc
t
the heart
In ancien
the back of
to
er
th
As one ga
ay
pl
ls stay to
Where ange
re hearth
toying befo
craftsmen
clay
The great
to
fe
li
th giving
t
Deep warm
of the hear
at the back
Feet gather
ay
pl
ls stay to
Where ange
rt
undo all hu
the stray
The angels
ekers and
se
e
th
ng
heart
e
Ensuri
th
to
way back
Find their
ay to play
st
ls
ge
an
Where
the hymn
r's table,
On the make
aise
pr
ed
cr
sa
Echoes
art
s of the he
The player
to pray.
y and stop
or
gl
to
Sing

lim lee ching

song

s o n g
g

lim lee chin

hope
of little
The river
bay
certainty's
art
Yet rises to
ck of the he
ba
e
th
to
It gathers
to play
ay
st
ls
Where ange
arn no hate
en there le
The childr
and gay
us
io
or
gl
e heart
For all is
e back of th
ther at th
And can, ga
ay
pl
ls stay to
Where ange

Where were you last

In mourning. In the night?
rain. Behind walls.
On a diet. On the game
. In treatment. In
love.
In denial. In arrears.
In tears. In
dependence.
In light of. In Fide
l. In the right plac
In the mood. Over the
e.
moon
.
Under the knife. In
Coming into being. my mothers body.
Elsewhere.
Where were you last
Moscow. It was snow night?
ing. The flakes on
face were hotter
my
than burning coals.Th
than your worst feve e snow was hotter
r.
A
snowflake fell
in my eye,
I have lost sight fore
ver.

Where were you last

In the Chelsea hote night?
The man whose name l, standing for one night.
I dont remember did
snore
not
for we didnt sleep.
whenever he thought He whispered Mina
its appropriate.
In the pub, I had give
n him my friends name
He said he liked my
.
they reminded him of shoes;
He was ten. She was his piano teacher.
thirty-two.
Where were you last
At home. In my own night?
arms. Home is my own
My own arms.
arms.

07

michael
kearney

pfnaul

one imperative issue 05 / october 2010