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by cecil rajendra
 

COUNTDOWN

So many, many years
have passed
in a whoosh ....
though never
too many years.
Together
we've grown so old;
but
for the grace of God
not yet
decrepit or alzheimic.

As, inexorable, we
hurtle
towards the cremotorium
i sometimes
stop to conduct a one-
man moratorium
on this marathon
union
of over-the-top intensity.

The good, bad &. so of ten
mad times
our blood 8c  pas si on-fuelled
sessions ....
now, admittedly, somewhat
sporadic;
yet never staid, perfunctory
or missionary but always, always breathless
seismic!

And those impossible-to-predict
insane
irrational explosions of anger
where
across the kitchen floor
volcanic
we've eyeballed each other
with
shades of murderous intent.

Still, even in those taut
hours of bitterest rancour
there was ... no other;
& all that shouting & screaming
never once undermined the loving.

 
 



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Index page     Artists 1930-1970     Book review    Cheung Pooi Yip    Choong Ai May    Countdown - a poem    Dismantling of justice   Food guide    An immigrant's story (4)       Letter from Pulau Tikus     The orang asli    Penang ABC    Pessoc's musicfest  
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The Penang File Issue  60