Antilliaanse Cahiers. Jaargang 1-2

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Singapore

The guided tour to Singapore
Many masters of the darkblue
art
of anticipating grand things
faithful father
of the craven thought

To the Orient
they say
to gather gaily gaudy paperdreams
and silken cradles
of our forefathers
feathers to the fear and frenzy
of fanatic idols of the East

The harbour of the odours and colours
of the caff of corn and the good
and the adventurous
adversaries
in bold ships
sailing scorned seas on western waves
with the sun
severe setting
in the crown of jewels of the maharadja's
of the East

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The island of the icons

 

of Buddha corners and bloated bellies

 

in tarnished temples

 

abandoned in the jungle

 

of Western thought

 

 

 

Mistreated philosophies

 

crashed

 

by ungarnished Greeks in another blue island

 

white and gold

 

 

 

Sane orientals

 

sneering

 

snakes and stale opium

 

in the stained dens of the sleepy

 

Sustained survival

 

at the stake

 

in burning

 

fire eating

 

dragons of the East