Name:Rivali Dass
Age:16 :)
Birthday: 5th Oct '92
Class:1D '05, 2e '06 <33,3e '07, 4e '08
School: MGS
I <3: Family, My dogs, 2e, 4e, MORONS, painting, designing, writing weird stories, being generally weird, unsettling people...
When I was doing the O-level lit paper, I realised that the poem was about marriage? (I did the prose) Even during our midyears,the poem we had to do was about a china bride.
And I was thinking, hard as it is to analyse these poems (forget about doing well in the essays we write about them) it must be pretty easy to write them. I mean, all of you who have been tortured studied Singaporean lit must have realised it, right? Throw in wordsjoinedtogether, a few unintelligible phrases, random punctuation marks, and voila! a Singaporean poem!
Here's an example. I wrote it myself :D
You. China Bride.
You. China Bride. Superficial marriage. / /________ /___ /
You go. ________to ___the house we stay in. I see you glancearound. unhappy. too small. you wanted, a two storeyed bunga<#?low. but you ____/ ____/ /________got a terrace house you have to share with my mother grandmother sister sister's husband sister's daughter aunt aunt's husband aunt's husband's grandmother and goldfish.
youdon'tlikefish
but i have one. which you don't like because you don't like fish but i like fish unlike you so we decide to keep it. a compromise.
even if you didn't get what you wanted.
You look at me <#^??$ atmyappearance
i see you thinking: "his brother looks so much better" don't try to hook up with him. or I willsendyoubacktoDalian
with your mother. ?:? who is ugly. i don noe why you brought her here.
she can sleep on the couch forever.
we had three wedding banquets. waste money leh. could have used it to have some.... fun in Geylang. youdon'tunderstandwhatImean. because you don't speak english. >.good.<
You are so short. But I am shorter. Not to mention the age diffrence. _________/ ___ / that's why no one married me. except you. because you wanted a new life. I am your passport to a new world.
Mr and Mrs. Tan The newlyweds.
You. China Bride. Superficial marriage. / ________/ ___/
Not bad eh? In fact, I can see why Singaporean poets enjoy writing poems so much. Its pretty fun.. you should try it!
YShe laughed. And laughed. And laughed yet again.;;
