neighbours say hello,
children play at the playground,
old friends have a chat.

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Uncle in singlet
Makes my toast and half-boiled eggs
My favourite breakfast

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Hopscotch and Five Stones?
Curious, I ask my father-
Are they iPad apps?

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Tall,big,stone giants
shimmering in the sunlight
wonderful buildings

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Be very quiet,
The animals will be out
You will be amazed!

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Old men playing chess,
Reliving the days gone by,
Void deck full of life.

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Scent of trees at night
Sleepy lights brighten the dark
Hear the far-off plane

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Five stones and chaptek
Once Kampong games but are now
Museum displays

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Uncle dozing off
Children placing cockroaches
Ran off when he woke

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As the playground swings
Creak back and forth, our childhood
Memories swing back

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No destination,
yet luring at every turn.
The Pasar Malam.

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expectorating
on the streets is filthy and
three hundred dollars

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Schoolbooks are lighter
than cumulative sweat-drops
on their young foreheads.

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Under orange moons
Our shadows are dancing
In concrete pastures.

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taxi driver greets
in dialects mapped on his tongue
shortcuts through his heart

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